gravitational pull
Mass attracts mass
Gravitational pull is the attractive force that draws objects toward one another, proportional to their masses.
Earth's gravitational pull keeps us grounded and the moon in orbit.
The phrase often appears figuratively for any powerful attraction: The gravitational pull of her old habits proved hard to resist.
He felt the gravitational pull of home.
- tidal forcesDifferential gravitational pull across bodies
- orbitCurved celestial path
- neap tideLowest tidal range
- massQuantity of matter
- center of massAverage position of distributed weight
weight · planetary motion · cosmic dance · black hole · event horizon · barycenter · tidal range · falling bodies · force · gravitational lensing · space warp · dark matter · centripetal force · attraction · pulling power · tides · spring tide · moon
- Earthearth, Earth, globe, continent, axis
- gravitygraviton, gravitational wave, gravitational force, gravitational collapse, gravitational field
- scientific phrasesbig bang, black hole, natural selection, climate change, genetic code
- forcesforce, electromagnetism, thrust, drag, friction
- tideshigh tide, low tide, ebb tide, tides, flood tide
- aerospace medicinebioastronautics, microgravity, pressure suit, space suit, space suits
gravitational pullantigravity
Force opposing downward pull
dark energy · centrifugal force · anti-gravity · solar wind · propulsion
gravitational pullmagnetic attraction
Force drawing ferrous objects
electromagnetic force · nuclear force · strong force · weak force