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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gravitation \Grav"i*ta"tion\, n. [Cf. F. gravitation. See Gravity.] 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: gravitation n : the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface; "gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love"--Albert Einstein [syn: {gravity}, {gravitational attraction}, {gravitational force}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportion to the quantity of matter they contain -- the quantity of matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to approach one another. This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science, having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A.
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