- law of gravitation, Newton's law of gravitation - (physics) the law that states any two bodies attract each other with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them
--1 is a kind of law, law of nature
--1 is a part of
--1 has parts:theory of gravitation, theory of gravity, gravitational theory, Newton's theory of gravitation gravitational constant, universal gravitational constant, constant of gravitation, G