constant of gravitation

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constant of gravitation - (physics) the universal constant relating force to mass and distance in Newton's law of gravitationgravitational constant, universal gravitational constant, Glaw of gravitation, Newton's law of gravitation - (physics) the law that states any two bodies attract each other with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between themnatural philosophy, physics - the science of matter and energy and their interactions; "his favorite subject was physics"constant - a number representing a quantity assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context; "the velocity of light is a constant"