Gravity \Grav"i*ty\, n.; pl. Gravities. [L. gravitas, fr.
gravis heavy; cf. F. gravit['e]. See Grave, a., Grief.]
1. The state of having weight; beaviness; as, the gravity of
lead.
[1913 Webster]
2. Sobriety of character or demeanor. "Men of gravity and
learning." --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
gravity
n 1: (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 [syn: gravitation,
gravitational attraction, gravitational force]
2: a manner that is serious and solemn [syn: graveness, sobriety,
soberness, somberness]
3: a solemn and dignified feeling [syn: solemnity] [ant: levity]
WordNet (r) 2.0
129 Moby Thesaurus words for "gravity":
G, G suit, acuteness, adduction, affinity, allurement,
apogeotropism, attractance, attraction, attractiveness,
attractivity, augustness, avoirdupois, beef, beefiness, bleakness,
buckram, capillarity, capillary attraction, centripetal force,
ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, courtliness, darkness,
deadweight, decorousness, demureness, dignifiedness, dignity,
dismalness, drag, draw, dreariness, earnestness, elevation,
exigency, extrinsicality, fatness, form, formality, formalization,
geotropism, gloom, gloominess, grandeur, gravitation, graviton,
grimness, gross weight, heaviness, heft, heftiness, immediacy,
impersonality, importance, kingliness, liveweight, loftiness,
long face, lordliness, magnetism, magnitude, majesty, mass,
moderation, momentousness, mutual attraction, neat weight, net,
net weight, no joke, no laughing matter, nobility, overbalance,
overweight, pomp, pomposity, ponderability, ponderosity,
ponderousness, poundage, pride of bearing, pride of place,
primness, princeliness, proud bearing, pull, pulling power,
regality, reserve, rigidness, ritual, rituality, sedateness,
seriousness, severity, significance, sober-mindedness, soberness,
sobersidedness, sobersides, sobriety, solemnity, solemnness,
somberness, specific gravity, staidness, starchiness, stateliness,
stiffness, stiltedness, straight face, stylization, sublimity,
sympathy, temperance, thoughtfulness, tonnage, traction, tug,
underweight, urgency, venerability, wearifulness, wearisomeness,
weight, weightiness, worthiness
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Gravity, IA (city, FIPS 32520)
Location: 40.76013 N, 94.74278 W
Population (1990): 218 (103 housing units)
Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 50848
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Gravity, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 218
Housing Units (2000): 103
Land area (2000): 0.298808 sq. miles (0.773910 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.298808 sq. miles (0.773910 sq. km)
FIPS code: 32520
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 40.759096 N, 94.744221 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50848
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Gravity, IA
Gravity
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
graveness, gravitation, gravitational attraction, gravitational force, soberness, sobriety, solemnity, somberness
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