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What does gravity mean?

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Noun
  1. Resultant force on Earth's surface, of the attraction by the Earth's masses, and the centrifugal pseudo-force caused by the Earth's rotation.
  2. Gravitation, universal force exercised by two bodies onto each other
  3. The state or condition of having weight; weight; heaviness.
  4. Specific gravity.
  5. The state or condition of being grave (graveness).
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They allow him unusual balance, enabling him to overcome gravity and stay upright when he should be prone.
In fact, scientists could and did show that gravity was too weak a force to account for the movement of continents.
For that to be possible, gravity and acceleration must be exactly equivalent to one another.
Attached to a single center of gravity by a harness made of strong webbing, hang gliders fly with bodies vertical.
But even after nearly 90 years the theory remains notoriously hard to test because gravity is such a weak force.
The interaction of the acceleration of gravity on the mass of our body produces the force which is called weight.

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