重力(じゅうりょく)

じゅうりょく
noun
gravity; gravitational force
1. gravity; gravitational force
gravity; gravitational force
重力(じゅうりょく)で物(もの)が落(お)ちる。
Things fall due to gravity.
月(つき)の重力(じゅうりょく)は地球(ちきゅう)の約(やく)6分(ぶん)の1だ。
The Moon's gravity is about one-sixth of Earth's.
宇宙(うちゅう)ステーションでは重力(じゅうりょく)がほとんど感(かん)じられない。
On the space station, gravity is barely felt.
ニュートンは落(お)ちるリンゴを見(み)て重力(じゅうりょく)の法則(ほうそく)を発見(はっけん)したと言(い)われている。
Newton is said to have discovered the law of gravity upon seeing an apple fall.

The fundamental force that attracts objects toward the center of a massive body such as a planet. In everyday Japanese, used frequently in science education and also figuratively in expressions about being pulled toward something.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS:

  • 重力(じゅうりょく)が働(はたら)く: gravity acts/works
  • 重力(じゅうりょく)に逆(さか)らう: defy gravity
  • 無(む)重力(じゅうりょく): zero gravity, weightlessness
  • 重力(じゅうりょく)加速度(かそくど): gravitational acceleration

RELATED TERMS:

  • 引力(いんりょく): attractive force, gravitation — a more general term for any pulling force
  • 万有引力(ばんゆういんりょく): universal gravitation (Newton's concept)
  • 遠心力(えんしんりょく): centrifugal force — the outward counterpart
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