GRAVITY
\ɡɹˈavɪti], \ɡɹˈavɪti], \ɡ_ɹ_ˈa_v_ɪ_t_i]\
Definitions of GRAVITY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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(physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface; "the more remote the body the less the gravity"; "the gravitation between two bodies is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them"; "gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love"--Albert Einstein
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a solemn and dignified feeling
By Princeton University
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Sobriety of character or demeanor.
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Importance, significance, dignity, etc; hence, seriousness; enormity; as, the gravity of an offense.
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The tendency of a mass of matter toward a center of attraction; esp., the tendency of a body toward the center of the earth; terrestrial gravitation.
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Lowness of tone; - opposed to acuteness.
By Oddity Software
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Sobriety of character or demeanor.
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Importance, significance, dignity, etc; hence, seriousness; enormity; as, the gravity of an offense.
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The tendency of a mass of matter toward a center of attraction; esp., the tendency of a body toward the center of the earth; terrestrial gravitation.
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Lowness of tone; - opposed to acuteness.
By Noah Webster.
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Acceleration produced by the mutual attraction of two masses, and of magnitude inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the two centers of mass. It is also the force imparted by the earth, moon, or a planet to an object near its surface. (From NASA Thesaurus, 1988)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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That force which tends to move all bodies towards the center of the earth; weight; importance; seriousness; solemnity; weight of guilt.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Weightiness: the tendency of matter to attract and be attracted, thus causing weight: state of being grave or sober: relative importance: (mus.) lowness of a note.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Heaviness; weight; importance; seriousness; solemnity; enormity; lowness of a note; the tendency, causing weight, of a mass of matter to attract and be attracted by another. Specific gravity, the weight of a body compared with another of equal bulk, taken as a standard. Centre of gravity. See Centre.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Weight; heaviness; seriousness; solemnity-see gravitate.
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Weight; heaviness; the power or force which draws or attracts all great bodies to a common centre, as the earth or planets to the sun; the power or force which draws all unsupported bodies to the surface of the earth in the direction of its centre; seriousness; solemnity; atrociousness; weight of guilt: centre of gravity, the point of a body which, if supported, all the other parts will be equally balanced: specific gravity, the relative weight of any solid or liquid as compared with the weight of an equal bulk of distilled water, or of any gas as compared with air.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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n. [Latin] Weight; heaviness;—seriousness; solemnity; sobriety of character or conduct;—importance; serious condition; critical state;—enormity; atrocity, as of a crime;—lowness of tone or sound;—tendency of a mass of matter toward a centre of attraction; especially, the tendency of a body toward the centre of the earth.
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