gravitation

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Jones did it by showing that Ricardo had made these universal rules that he said were as certain as the principle of gravitation.

From Salon • Feb. 1, 2025

While TV station owners are enjoying the changing tide by picking up valuable sports programming, they know the audience’s gravitation to streaming is not going to reverse.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2023

From a certain distance, the cluster was then 'captured' by the gravitation of the black hole.

From Science Daily • Oct. 10, 2023

In another speech that year, Kuroda described how, like a spacecraft attempting to move away from Earth's gravitation, "tremendous velocity" was needed to end Japan's deflationary equilibrium.

From Reuters • Apr. 7, 2023

He occupied himself by inventing the differential and integral calculus, making fundamental discoveries on the nature of light and laying the foundation for the theory of universal gravitation.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan