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 law of gravitation
 萬有引力定律

 law of gravitation 名詞
 萬有引力定律

 Grav·i·ta·tion n.
 1. The act of gravitating.
 2. Pysics That species of attraction or force by which all bodies or particles of matter in the universe tend toward each other; called also attraction of gravitation, universal gravitation, and universal gravity. See Attraction, and Weight.
 Law of gravitation, that law in accordance with which gravitation acts, namely, that every two bodies or portions of matter in the universe attract each other with a force proportional directly to the quantity of matter they contain, and inversely to the squares of their distances.
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 law of gravitation
      n : (physics) the law that states any two bodies attract each
          other with a force that is directly proportional to the
          product of their masses and inversely proportional to the
          square of the distance between them [syn: Newton's law
          of gravitation]