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noun

1. The state or condition of having weight; weight; heaviness.

2. The state or condition of being grave; seriousness.

   • I hope you appreciate the gravity of the situation.
   • Since I believe that abortion is absolutely wrong I must choose the course that minimizes the support of it. The gravity of this issue is so great that I must consider my job expendable.

3. (music) The lowness of a note.

4. (physics) The phenomenon that, on earth, objects have weight; the similar phenomenon on other celestial bodies such as the moon.

5. (loosely, see usage notes) Gravitation, the universal force exercised by two bodies on each other by virtue of their masses.

6. (physics) A law or laws of gravitation: any theory which attempts to account for the phenomena of weight and/or the mutual attraction of massive objects (Aristotelian gravity, Newtonian gravity).

7. (physics) Specific gravity.