Definition of Gravitation

Grave

GRAVITATION noun

	The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportion to the quantity of matter they contain -- the quantity of matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to approach one another. This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science, having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A.

		definition from: *The Devil's Dictionary* by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

Great

Regular definition:

GRAVITATION:
??ræv??te???n n. Physics 1 a force of attraction between any particle of matter in the universe and any other. 2 the effect of this, esp. the falling of bodies to the earth. [mod.L gravitatio (as GRAVITY)]

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