gravitation

Noun

• a figurative movement toward some attraction
  • the gravitation of the middle class to the suburbs
    

• movement downward resulting from gravitational attraction
  • irrigation by gravitation rather than by pumps
    

• (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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  gravity , gravitational attraction , gravitational force