law of gravitation

Noun law of gravitation has 1 sense

• law of gravitation(n = noun.cognition) newton's law of gravitation - (physics) the law that states any two bodies attract each other with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them;
is a kind of law, law of nature
is a part of gravitational theory, newton's theory of gravitation, theory of gravitation, theory of gravity
has parts: constant of gravitation, g, gravitational constant, universal gravitational constant