gravitation

noun

1. 1

   a figurative movement toward some attraction

   the gravitation of the middle class to the suburbs

2. 2

   movement downward resulting from gravitational attraction

   irrigation by gravitation rather than by pumps

3. 3

   (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