gravitation

See also: Gravitation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin gravitātiō. Equivalent to gravity +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɡɹævɪˈteɪʃən/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

gravitation (usually uncountable, plural gravitations)

1. (physics) The fundamental force of attraction that exists between all particles with mass in the universe. It is the weakest of the four forces, and possesses a gauge boson known as the graviton.

Translations

fundamental force of attraction

• Bengali: অভিকর্ষ (bn) (obhikorśo), মহাকর্ষ (mohakorśo), মাধ্যাকর্ষণ (maddhakorśon)
• Bulgarian: гравитация f (gravitacija)
• Catalan: gravitació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 重力 (zh) (zhònglì), 引力 (zh) (yǐnlì)

• Czech: přitažlivost f, gravitace (cs) f
• Dutch: zwaartekracht (nl) f, gravitatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: gravitada ondo
• Finnish: painovoima (fi), gravitaatio (fi)
• French: gravitation (fr) f
• Georgian: მიზიდულობა (miziduloba), გრავიტაცია (graviṭacia)
• German: Schwerkraft (de) f, Gravitation (de) f
• Hungarian: gravitáció (hu), tömegvonzás (hu)
• Ido: gravitado (io)
• Indonesian: gravitasi (id)
• Interlingua: gravitation
• Irish: imtharraingt (ga) f
• Italian: gravitazione (it) f, gravità (it) f, interazione gravitazionale (it) f
• Japanese: 引力 (ja) (いんりょく, inryoku), 重力 (ja) (じゅうりょく, jūryoku)
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• Korean: 인력(引力) (ko) (illyeok), 중력(重力) (ko) (jungnyeok)
• Latvian: gravitācija f
• Luxembourgish: Gravitatioun f
• Malay: graviti (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gravitasjon m

  Nynorsk: gravitasjon m

• Persian: گرانش (fa), جاذبه (fa)
• Polish: grawitacja (pl) f, ciążenie (pl) n, siła ciążenia f
• Portuguese: gravitação (pt) f
• Romanian: gravitație (ro) f
• Russian: гравита́ция (ru) f (gravitácija), тяготе́ние (ru) n (tjagoténije), притяже́ние (ru) n (pritjažénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гравита́ција f, те́жа f

  Roman: gravitácija (sh) f, téža (sh) f

• Slovene: gravitácija f
• Spanish: gravitación (es) f
• Swedish: gravitation (sv) c, tyngdkraft (sv) c
• Tagalog: karagsinan
• Ukrainian: гравіта́ція f (hravitácija)
• Welsh: disgyrchedd m

Antonyms

• levitation

Derived terms

• antigravitation
• autogravitation
• degravitation
• gravitate
• gravitational
• quantum gravitation
• supergravitation

 

See also

• gravity

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin gravitātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁa.vi.ta.sjɔ̃/

• France:

  (file)

Noun

gravitation f (plural gravitations)

1. (physics) gravitation

Derived terms

• gravitationnel

Related terms

• graviter

Further reading

• “gravitation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin gravitātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡravɪtaˈɧuːn/

Noun

gravitation c

1. (physics) gravitation

   Gravitation är svagare än elektromagnetismen, men påverkar all materia och energi.

   Gravity is weaker than electromagnetism, but affects all matter and energy.

Declension

Declension of gravitation
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	gravitation	gravitationen	—	—
Genitive	gravitations	gravitationens	—	—

Related terms

• gravitationell
• gravitationsfält
• gravitationslins
• gravitationsstrålning
• gravitationsvåg
• gravitera
• graviton

 

See also

• (fundamental interactions) fundamental växelverkan; elektromagnetisk växelverkan, gravitation, stark växelverkan, svag växelverkan ^{(Category: sv:Physics)}