gravities
- 1Plural of gravity.
Engineers calculated the surface gravities of several moons before planning the landing.
The two liquids turned out to have very different specific gravities.
Note
A plural that belongs mostly to measurement and theory. In its primary sense of attractive force the noun is usually uncountable, so the plural appears where separate values or separate accounts are compared: the specific gravities of two liquids, the surface gravities of several moons, or rival theories such as Aristotelian and Newtonian gravity, which can be spoken of together as competing gravities.
gravities is a form of gravity
gravity, noun: The phenomenon by which objects have weight on Earth, and the similar effect found on other bodies such as the Moon. Full entry
- Forms
- gravitygravities plural
- Spelling
- gravity → gravities: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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