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gravity

Gravity is the physical force that attracts all matter, for example what makes things fall to the ground. Because of the Earth's larger size, gravity here is stronger than the pull of gravity on the moon. The gravity of a situation is how serious and worrying it is. I don't think she understands the gravity of her crime.

gravity

(= gravitation) (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 gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love — -Albert Einstein (= graveness) a manner that is serious and solemn a solemn and dignified feeling

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Simple sentences

Gravity is the natural force by which objects are attracted to each other.
Gravity acts on everything in the universe.
Gravity binds the planets to the sun.
Gravity pulls things toward the center of the earth.
If you can use gravity to your advantage, do so.
Let us consider the gravity of this day, for today inside the hospitable walls of Boulogne-sur-Mer, the French are not meeting the English, nor are Russians meeting Poles, but people are meeting people.
Gravity is the only thing keeping me here.
This is a matter of the utmost gravity.
Gravity stresses the human body.
Gravity wins again!
The giraffe cannot swim because its centre of gravity is so high that it would topple over.
Jupiter is the only planet in the Solar System whose common center of gravity with the Sun lies outside the Sun itself.
Tides are caused by the moon's gravity.
Newton established the law of gravity.
The gravity of the moon is one-sixth of that of the earth.
Its massive gravity well tugs many asteroids from the outer belt inwards.
It's gravity that makes satellites move around the Earth.
A pillow at six o'clock in the morning has got the biggest gravity in the world.
It was then that we clearly felt the gravity of the situation.
Buildings cannot deny the law of gravity.
The force of gravity between two objects is proportional to the product of the two masses, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centers of mass.

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If you lived on a planet with twice the gravity of Earth, there'd be a lot more pull on your body and you'd come crashing down twice as hard if you fell.
A planet with very little gravity would be like our moon or Mars.
I can imagine a creature on a low gravity planet as being. long and spindly.
Life on a low gravity planet might be tall and thin, with long legs.
I hope, my child, you are fully aware of the gravity of this moment.
But mind they appreciate the gravity of their offence.
We seem to be defying the laws of gravity.
The law of gravity.
Between five and 10 times as strong as the pull of gravity.
Meeting gravity halfway.
Checking the gravity, captain.
I must warn you of the gravity of the statements you are making.
We understand the gravity of the situation.
Surely, Lady Isabella. you appreciate the gravity of these charges that Captain Evans has brought against you.
I neutralized his gravity field.
Either this suit is on upside-down or there is no law of gravity.
That's the farthest thought from my mind, so help me the law of gravity.
Newton, they say, thought of gravity by getting hit on the head by an apple.
The rest of you are trying to understand the gravity of our situation but repeatedly ask how really serious it is.
What's to prevent us from floating around like a bunch of balloons once we get away from Earth's gravity?
There's a time for gaiety and a time for gravity.
During flight training it took 7 times the force of gravity without even a headache.
The magnetic attraction above counteracts the pull of gravity below.
Artificial gravity off.
It came packed in liquid boron in a suspended gravity.
Who wants to defy gravity, folks?
There's no gravity anymore.
Oh, gravity!
And what was that about gravity not working?
Since then we found a thing, an electromagnetic compensator which fixes gravity.
Would you like me to cancel gravity?
Now where is the bloody gravity? That's not it.
A fact, like a rock, has certain dimensions and gravity.
It feels to me as though we have plus-gravity.
Hank, will you turn off the magnetic gravity?
Meanwhile, considering the gravity of our next announcement. I think this is more appropriate.
It's specific gravity, but it whips cream too.
You must be there to show the gravity of the offence.

News and current affairs

Similarly, the gravity of weaker growth will most likely overcome the levitational effect on equity prices from more quantitative easing, particularly given that equity valuations today are not as depressed as they were in 2009 or 2010.
In sum, the fact that the US trade balance has defied gravity for so many years has made it possible for the dollar to do so, too.
LONDON - The gravity of the eurozone crisis has finally sunk in.
In fact, the gravity of the banking crisis was quickly grasped.
KYIV - The world's center of gravity is heading eastward so fast that we Europeans can almost feel the ground moving beneath our feet.
In the future, close cooperation between Germany and France will more than ever form the old and new center of gravity in a blocked EU.
The president of the European Central Bank, as well as the International Monetary Fund, acknowledge the gravity of the problem.
Only the sheer gravity of the situation brought Germany back within the European realm for the subsequent G-20 meeting.
Given the gravity of the accusations, and the abundance of evidence against him, Ríos Montt should be on his way to prison.
While the Obama administration is obviously aware of what is happening south of the Rio Grande, the threat simply does not command the attention that its gravity requires.
For the past two months, thousands of Lopez Obrador's most fervent supporters have transformed the Zocalo, Mexico City's central square, into a virtual sea of tents - the center of gravity of opposition to the official result.
Like its statement on the destruction of Sufi shrines, it denied involvement in the attack on the US Consulate, but stressed the gravity of the insult against the Prophet that putatively triggered it.
We appreciate that they have beliefs, desires, and consciousness, and we recognize that they are solid physical things that take up space and are subject to gravity.
Indeed, downplaying the gravity of the latest crisis is easy: one can argue that the immediate cause of the breakdown, when examined closely, is not really all that serious.
Given the gravity of the economic crisis, the time has come for the EU to demonstrate its strengths whenever possible.
The depth and gravity of the current economic and social crisis in countries like Greece, Portugal, and Spain present women with a new opportunity.
Nor would it be proper, where the gravity and scale of crimes materially differ, to charge all sides in a conflict in order to preserve a false sense of parity.
As the world's center of economic gravity shifts east, the balance of financial activity is bound to move with it.
NEW YORK - As Asia emerges from the global economic crisis faster than the rest of the world, it is increasingly clear that the world's center of gravity is shifting from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Its recent decision to withdraw its ambassador from Qatar has revealed the gravity of the crisis in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), composed of the Kingdom's most immediate neighbors.
If the world economy's center of gravity shifts substantially toward developing countries, this will not be a smooth - and possibly not even a benign - process.
So far, Trump has defied the laws of political gravity.
Unexpected by researchers, such a force had nevertheless been predicted in 1915 by a modification that Albert Einstein proposed to his own theory of gravity, the general theory of relativity.
They are tightly constrained by the explanatory substance of Einstein's theory, which holds that gravity is due to the curvature of spacetime, that light has the same speed for all observers, and so on.
MANILA - To hear some pundits tell it, China's economic miracle - one that lifted 300 million people out of poverty and shifted the world's geopolitical center of gravity - is coming to a tumultuous end.
STOCKHOLM - This year marks the centenary of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, his masterwork describing gravity as the curvature of space and time.
According to Einstein's theory, gravity, unlike all other physical forces known to man, is not quantized.
This mismatch between our understanding of gravity and the quantum theories of matter poses a huge conundrum for theoretical physicists, because it leads to mathematical contradictions.
Clearly, there is something about the combination of quantum theory and gravity that remains unknown, and our understanding of space, time, and matter hinges on unraveling this connection.
Contrary to how it may feel when you try to get out of bed in the morning, gravity is by far the weakest fundamental force of all we have identified.
In the atomic and subatomic world, gravity is irrelevant compared to what else is going on, all of which can be described by quantum theories.

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