gravity

Roget category 319

3. Words relating to matter
› 3.1. Matter in general
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#319. Gravity

noun

gravity, gravitation — weight — heaviness etc. adj. — specific gravity — pondorosity^†, pressure, load — burden, burthen^† — ballast, counterpoise — lump of, mass of, weight of.
lead, millstone, mountain, Ossa on Pelion.
weighing, ponderation^†, trutination^† — weights — avoirdupois weight, troy weight, apothecaries' weight — grain, scruple, drachma^†, ounce, pound, lb, arroba^†, load, stone, hundredweight, cwt, ton, long ton, metric ton, quintal, carat, pennyweight, tod^†.
[metric weights] gram, centigram, milligram, microgram, kilogram — nanogram, picogram, femtogram, attogram.
[Weighing Instrument] balance, scale, scales, steelyard, beam, weighbridge^† — spring balance, piezoelectric balance, analytical balance, two-pan balance, one-pan balance — postal scale, baby scale.
[Science of gravity] statics.

verb

be heavy etc. adj. — gravitate, weigh, press, cumber, load.
[Measure the weight of] weigh, poise.

adjective

weighty — weighing etc. v. — heavy as lead — ponderous, ponderable — lumpish^†, lumpy, cumbersome, burdensome — cumbrous, unwieldy, massive.
incumbent, superincumbent^†.

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