GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gravitational constant mean? 

• GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT (noun)
  The noun GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT has 1 sense:

1. (physics) the universal constant relating force to mass and distance in Newton's law of gravitation

  Familiarity information: GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(physics) the universal constant relating force to mass and distance in Newton's law of gravitation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

constant of gravitation; G; gravitational constant; universal gravitational constant

Hypernyms ("gravitational constant" is a kind of...):

constant (a number representing a quantity assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

Holonyms ("gravitational constant" is a part of...):

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)

 Context examples 

The 2006 CODATA recommended value of the gravitational constant is approximately 6.67428xE10-11 m3/kg/s2.

(Gravitational Constant, NCI Thesaurus)

A physical quantity that is constant in all circumstances throughout the universe (e.g., speed of light c, elementary charge, the gravitational constant G).

(Fundamental Physical Constant, NCI Thesaurus)