GRAVITATIONAL MASS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

(physics) the mass of a body as measured by its gravitational attraction for other bodies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

mass (the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field)

Domain category:

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

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