Definition of Gravities

1. Noun. (plural of gravity) ¹

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Definition of Gravities

1. gravity [n] - See also: gravity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gravities

gravitational singularities
gravitational singularity
gravitational slingshot
gravitational theory
gravitational ulcer
gravitational units
gravitational wave
gravitational waves
gravitationally
gravitationally challenged
gravitations
gravitative
gravitaxis
gravithermal
gravitic
gravities (current term)
gravitino
gravitinoless
gravitinos
gravitoelectric
gravitoelectromagnetic
gravitoelectromagnetism
gravitomagnetic
gravitomagnetism
gravitometer
gravitometers
graviton
gravitons
gravitropic
gravitropism

Literary usage of Gravities

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1908)
"Attention has been recently called by various authors to large discrepancies and inaccuracies in the present tables of specific gravities.1 If for no other ..."

2. Smithsonian Physical Tables by Smithsonian Institution, Frederick Eugene Fowle (1916)
"The specific gravities are for I5.56°C (6o°F) referred to water at the same ... For specific gravities less than unity the values are calculated from the ..."

3. A Treatise of Mechanics, Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive by Olinthus Gregory (1815)
"On the Determination of the Specific gravities of Solid and Fluid Bodies. 396. THE term specific gravity has already been defined in art. 383. ..."

4. A Treatise of Mechanics: Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive by Olinthus Gregory (1826)
"The specific gravities of bodies are in the same proportion as their ... When the specific gravities are equal, their weights are ' directly as their ..."

5. Transactions by North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers., Gerard H. Matthes (1887)
"That is, the specific gravities of the bodies are proportional to the weights of equal volumes of the bodies. If water is assumed as the unit for specific ..."

6. A Manual of Applied Mechanics by William John Macquorn Rankine (1898)
"When the object of weighing of this kind is to determine the specific gravities of solids, the liquid usually employed is pure water; and the results ..."

7. Principles of Physics, Or Natural Philosophy: Designed for the Use of by Benjamin Silliman (1871)
"Pressures vary as the specific gravities of liquids. ... of unlike density will vary directly with their specific gravities ; or representing the pressures ..."

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