Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun gravitational_attraction

1 sense of gravitational attraction

Sense 1
gravity, gravitation, gravitational attraction, gravitational force -- ((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)
       => attraction, attractive force -- (the force by which one object attracts another)