gravity

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Senses relating to seriousness.; Of an activity such as a ceremony, a person's conduct, etc.: the quality of being deeply serious and solemn, especially in a dignified manner; seriousness, solemnity; (countable, archaic or obsolete) a serious or solemn thing, such as a matter, a comment, etc. uncountable
    — Page. Yonder is a moſt reuerend Gentleman; vvho (be-like) hauing receiued vvrong by ſome perſon, is at moſt odds vvith his ovvne grauity and patience, that euer you ſavv. / [Robert] Shal[low]. I haue liued foure-ſcore yeeres, and vpvvard: I neuer heard a man of his place, grauity, and learning, ſo vvide of his ovvne reſpect.
  2. Senses relating to seriousness.; Of an activity, situation, words, etc.: the quality of having important or serious consequences; importance, seriousness. uncountable
    — I hope you appreciate the gravity of the situation.
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  3. Senses relating to seriousness.; Authority, influence, weight; also, used as a title for a person with authority or influence. obsolete,uncountable
    — [T]ho' Guicciardin [Francesco Guicciardini] miſtakes in thoſe Points, vve may ſafely venture to depend on all the reſt of the Circumſtances as true Hiſtory: VVhy elſe ſhould they be mentioned by a Hiſtoriographer of ſuch Gravity?
  4. Senses relating to physical qualities.; The lowness in pitch of a note, a sound, etc. uncountable
  5. Senses relating to physical qualities.; Synonym of gravitation (“the fundamental force of attraction which exists between all matter in the universe that tends to draw bodies towards each other, due to matter causing the curvature of spacetime”); also, a physical law attempting to account for the phenomena of this force. uncountable
    — Aristotelian gravity Newtonian gravity
  6. Senses relating to physical qualities.; Synonym of g-force (“the acceleration of a body relative to the freefall acceleration due to any local gravitational field, expressed in multiples of g0 (the mean acceleration due to gravity (sense 2.2.1) at the Earth's surface)”). countable,dated
  7. Senses relating to physical qualities.; Dated except in centre of gravity: specific gravity or relative density (“a dimensionless measure which is the ratio of the mass of a substance to that of some reference substance (chiefly an equal volume of water at 4°C)”); also, heaviness, weight. dated,uncountable
    — Thus one generation is alvvays the ſcorn and vvonder of the other; and the notions of the old and young are like liquors of different gravity and texture, vvhich can never unite.
  8. Senses relating to physical qualities.; The tendency to have weight and thus move downwards, formerly believed to be an inherent quality of some objects. obsolete,uncountable
    — […] Similitude of Subſtance vvill cauſe Attraction, vvhere the Body is vvholly freed from the Motion of Grauitie: For if that vvere taken avvay, Lead vvould dravv Lead, and Gold vvould dravv Gold, and Iron vvould dravv Iron, vvithout the helpe of the Load-Stone. But this ſame Motion of VVeight or Grauitie, […] doth kill the other Motion, except it ſelfe be killed by a violent Motion; […]
  9. Senses relating to physical qualities.; The quality of being unable or unwilling to move quickly; heaviness, sluggishness. obsolete,rare,uncountable
    — [T]he learned authors of this vvorld ſay that about thirty yeares, man is in his full ſtate, and from that time, hee declineth to an age of more grauity and decay: […]

词形变化

gravities plural

词汇关系

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acceleration of gravity aerogravity anti-gravity anti-gravity lean API gravity bigravity center of gravity contragravity countergravity electrogravity gravital gravitation gravitic gravitics gravitied graviton gravity assist gravity bomb gravity bong gravity boots gravity brightened gravity-brightening gravity brightening gravity cell gravity dam gravity-darkened gravity-darkening gravity darkening gravity drag gravity drop gravity gun gravity hill gravity knife gravityless gravity meter gravity racer gravity slingshot gravity sport gravity's pull gravity suit gravity tank gravity train gravity turn gravity wave gravity well gravity wind hypergravity hypogravity infragravity isogravity loop quantum gravity microgravity milligravity nongravity normogravity paragravity pseudogravity quantum gravity specific gravity bottle standard gravity supergravity surface gravity ungravity zero gravity
相关词
grave gravid

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷreh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-us
Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us
Proto-Italic *gʷraus
Latin gravis
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -tās
Latin gravitāslbor.
French gravitébor.
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Latin gravitāslbor.
English gravity
Borrowed from French gravité (“seriousness, solemnity; severity; (physics) gravity”), or from its etymon Latin gravitās (“heaviness, weight; seriousness; severity”), equivalent to grave (“serious”) + -ity (suffix forming nouns, especially abstract nouns). Gravitās is derived from gravis (“heavy; grave, serious”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷreh₂- (“heavy”)) + -tās (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns indicating states of being). The English word was first used figuratively, and gained the senses relating to physical qualities in the 17th century. Doublet of gravitas.
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