gravitational force

[ grav-i-tey-shuh-nl fawrs ]

noun

, Aerospace,

1. a unit of acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity at the earth's surface:

   Fighter pilots train to tolerate very high G-forces with breathing techniques and specialized equipment.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gravitational force¹

First recorded in 1690–1710

Example Sentences

The bar’s slowdown hints that a gravitational force is acting on it.

From Science News For Students

Along with Marshall, Sood’s team has been focused on trajectory designs for the cruiser, which is set to monitor the sun near the L1 Lagrange Point—a spot between the Earth and sun where their gravitational forces cancel each other out.

From MIT Technology Review

The bar’s slowdown hints that a gravitational force is acting on it, namely, the pull of dark matter in the galaxy.

From Science News

A room on the space station could rotate fast enough that astronauts would feel a gravitational force of about 1 g — the same as they would feel on Earth.

From Science News For Students

Thorne finessed the problem by using ideas from quantum gravity that allow Cooper to travel back and communicate with Murph by pushing objects to create gravitational forces that she senses, without violating anything.

From Nautilus

That means twice as far from the black hole, the gravitational force is roughly four times as weak.

From The Daily Beast

We have a sort of fourth-dimensional lens that concentrates the lines of any gravitational force.

From Project Gutenberg

Moreover, the fact of atmospheric pressure is itself a case of one of the commonest of all facts—weight or gravitational force.

From Project Gutenberg

This rate, he thinks, is regulated by the gravitational force.

From Project Gutenberg

In this matter Kant regards himself as defending the Newtonian theory of an attractive gravitational force.

From Project Gutenberg

There was a gravitational force here for which I was not allowing.

From Project Gutenberg