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• n  (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface
  the more remote the body the less the gravity
• n  a manner that is serious and solemn
• n  a solemn and dignified feeling

• The police officer could not gauge the gravity of the situation and was soon engulfed by an angry mob.
• Lots of people, including Einstein (see above), talk about gravity, the restraining force which makes people walk on floors instead of floating in midair.
• Accelerated by the force of gravity on the first half of his trip, he would have gained just enough kinetic energy to coast up to the other sideagainst the pull of gravity .

• gravitation
• gravitational attraction
• gravitational force
• graveness
• sobriety
• soberness
• somberness
• sombreness
• solemnity

• levity

News & Articles

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• PayPal Chooses Gravity Payments to Enable PayPal Card Acceptance in Northern California
  SEATTLE, June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Gravity Payments, the largest credit card processor in Washington State, accepts PayPal's proposed partnership enabling PayPal card acceptance at all of Gravity Payments' ...
  June 12, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
• PayPal Chooses Gravity Payments To Enable PayPal Card Acceptance In Hawaii
  SEATTLE, June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Gravity Payments, the largest credit card processor in Washington State, accepts PayPal's proposed partnership enabling PayPal card acceptance at all of Gravity Payments' ...
  June 12, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
• PayPal Chooses Gravity Payments To Enable PayPal Card Acceptance In Seattle
  SEATTLE, June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Gravity Payments, the largest credit card processor in Washington State, accepts PayPal's proposed partnership enabling PayPal card acceptance at all of Gravity Payments' ...
  June 11, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Paul Goydos in Los Angeles Times
  Gravity is the best friend I have,Goydos told Jonathan Byrd and Cliff Kresge, his playing partners for the magical round.
• Gregory Smith in Central Florida News 13|
  Mosul will continue to be a center of influence for, a center of gravity for al-Qaida because of its key network of facilitation _ both financing and foreign fighters,Smith said. "The flow to Mosul is critical for al-Qaida in Iraq."
• Leah Ward Sears in Seattle Times
  Sears said that represented a "seismic shift in the legislature's view of the gravity of oral sex between two willing participants."