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law of gravitation
[ law uhv grav-i-tey-shuhn ]
noun
, Physics.
- a law stating that any two masses attract each other with a force equal to a constant (called the gravitational constant ) multiplied by the product of the two masses and divided by the square of the distance between them.
law of gravitation
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Word History and Origins
Origin of law of gravitation1
First recorded in 1755–65
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