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10 Language-to-English Dictionaries引力
Pronunciation / Transliteration: yǐnlì
"引力使苹果落向地面。"
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
The attractive force existing between any two objects that have mass, proportional to their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centers.
"The gravitational force between the Earth and the Moon keeps the Moon in orbit." - 2
The natural phenomenon by which all physical bodies attract each other, commonly experienced as the pull toward the center of the Earth or other celestial bodies.
"An apple falls from a tree due to the gravitational force acting upon it."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
The term combines 'gravitational', derived from the Latin 'gravitas' meaning weight or heaviness (from 'gravis'), and 'force', derived from the Old French 'forz' and Latin 'fortis' meaning strong. Formulated as a scientific concept following Isaac Newton's laws of universal gravitation in the late 17th century.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Gravitational force" is said worldwide
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force gravitationnelle
Transliteration: fɔʁs ɡʁavita.sjɔnɛl
"La force gravitationnelle maintient les planètes en orbite."
Gravitationskraft
Transliteration: ɡʁaviˈtatsi̯oːnsˌkʁaft
"Die Gravitationskraft zieht Gegenstände zur Erde."
forza gravitazionale
Transliteration: ˈfɔrtsa ɡravitatsjoˈnale
"La forza gravitazionale è una delle forze fondamentali della fisica."
fuerza gravitacional
Transliteration: ˈfweɾsa ɡɾavita.sjoˈnal
"La fuerza gravitacional nos mantiene unidos al suelo."
força gravitacional
Transliteration: ˈfɔɾ.sɐ ɡɾɐ.vi.tɐ.sjɔˈnaw
"A força gravitacional atrai os corpos uns para os outros."
गुरुत्वाकर्षण बल
Transliteration: gurutvākarṣaṇ bal
"पृथ्वी का गुरुत्वाकर्षण बल हमें जमीन पर रखता है।"
引力
Transliteration: yǐnlì
"引力使苹果落向地面。"
중력
Transliteration: jung-ryeok
"지구의 중력은 모든 물체를 아래로 끌어당깁니다."
重力
Transliteration: jūryoku
"地球の重力が物体を引き付ける。"
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