Definition of Gravitations

1. gravitation [n] - See also: gravitation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gravitations

gravitational lensing
gravitational propulsion
gravitational radiation
gravitational redshift
gravitational singularities
gravitational singularity
gravitational slingshot
gravitational theory
gravitational ulcer
gravitational units
gravitational wave
gravitational waves
gravitationally
gravitationally challenged
gravitations (current term)
gravitative
gravitaxis
gravithermal
gravitic
gravities
gravitino
gravitinoless
gravitinos
gravitoelectric
gravitoelectromagnetic
gravitoelectromagnetism
gravitomagnetic
gravitomagnetism
gravitometer

Literary usage of Gravitations

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of India from the Earliest Ages by James Talboys Wheeler (1876)
"He leaned towards Christianity ; he rejected the Trinity and Incarnation. The gravitations of Akber towards Christianity ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1894)
"Now the gravitations or downward forces of all weights, and therefore of the metric series—the gram weight and its decimal multiples and submultiples—vary ..."

3. A System of Mechanical Philosophy by John Robison, James Watt (1822)
"If the diminutions by the Sun's action were also inversely as the square of the distance, the remaining gravitations would be in the same proportion still. ..."

4. Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy: Considered in It's [sic by George Adams (1794)
"... the mutual gravitations of the planets and comets arc confider- The accelerations and retardations of the planets Mercury, Venus, the Earth, and Mars, ..."

5. Miscellanea Curiosa Mathematica: Or, The Literary Correspondence of Some edited by Francis Holliday (1749)
"... the gravitations of the Moo* •*• towards the Sun and towards the Earth be directly as s the mafs of the Sun, and t the mafs of the Earthy and ..."

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