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Definition of Gravities
1. gravity [n] - See also: gravity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gravities
Literary usage of Gravities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1908)
"Attention has been recently called by various authors to large discrepancies and
inaccuracies in the present tables of specific gravities.1 If for no other ..."
2. Smithsonian Physical Tables by Smithsonian Institution, Frederick Eugene Fowle (1916)
"The specific gravities are for I5.56°C (6o°F) referred to water at the same ...
For specific gravities less than unity the values are calculated from the ..."
3. A Treatise of Mechanics, Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive by Olinthus Gregory (1815)
"On the Determination of the Specific Gravities of Solid and Fluid Bodies. 396.
THE term specific gravity has already been defined in art. 383. ..."
4. A Treatise of Mechanics: Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive by Olinthus Gregory (1826)
"The specific gravities of bodies are in the same proportion as their ... When the
specific gravities are equal, their weights are ' directly as their ..."
5. Transactions by North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers., Gerard H. Matthes (1887)
"That is, the specific gravities of the bodies are proportional to the weights of
equal volumes of the bodies. If water is assumed as the unit for specific ..."
6. A Manual of Applied Mechanics by William John Macquorn Rankine (1898)
"When the object of weighing of this kind is to determine the specific gravities
of solids, the liquid usually employed is pure water; and the results ..."
7. Principles of Physics, Or Natural Philosophy: Designed for the Use of by Benjamin Silliman (1871)
"Pressures vary as the specific gravities of liquids. ... of unlike density will
vary directly with their specific gravities ; or representing the pressures ..."
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