law of gravitation

collocation in English

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law
noun
uk
/lɔː/us
/lɑː/
a rule, usually made by a government, that is used to order the way in which a ...
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gravitation
noun
uk
/ˌɡræv.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌɡræv.əˈteɪ.ʃən/
in science, the force that attracts all objects towards ...
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(Definition oflawandgravitationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is thelawofgravitationapplied to human affairs.
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I myself have tried to approach this by generalising thelawofgravitation.
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It would be just about as sane an attitude to talk disrespectfully of thelawofgravitationor of the equator.
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There was a difference in thelawofgravitationas applied to it!
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He is even pretty sure they had the inverse-squarelawofgravitation.
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He then invokes the fundamentallawofgravitationas an example.
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This is a consequence of the inverse-squarelawofgravitation.
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It knows nolawofgravitation.
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I almost wonder why he does not tackle as well the laws of gravitation.
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You cannot convince me that economic laws are entitled to rank alongside the laws of gravitation as part of a fixed and unchangeable plan of the universe.
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No perceptual formulae have been raised to the status of natural law in the way that the laws of gravitation and electrical attraction have.
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The bodies are then plotted as they move according to the laws of gravitation.
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This would violate the strong equivalence principle that the laws of gravitation are independent of velocity and location, a principle considered fundamental by many theoretical physicists.
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