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引いん力りょく

physicsnounnoun (generic)

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いんりょく

Meanings

attraction (e.g. magnetic, gravitation), affinity, gravitational pull
attractiveness, magnetism

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Example sentences

地球ちきゅうの引力いんりょくは物体ぶったいを地面じめんに引ひき付つける。

The Earth's gravitational pull attracts objects to the ground.

月つきの引力いんりょくが潮しおの満みち引ひきを引ひき起おこしている。

The Moon's gravitational pull causes the tides.

引力いんりょくが働はたらかなければ、私わたしたちは宇宙うちゅうに浮うかんでしまうだろう。

If gravitational pull did not work, we would float off into space.

ニュートンはリンゴが落おちるのを見みて引力いんりょくの法則ほうそくを発見はっけんしたと言いわれている。

It is said that Newton discovered the law of gravitational attraction by watching an apple fall.

二ふたつの物体ぶったいの間あいだに働はたらく引力いんりょくは、それぞれの質量しつりょうに比例ひれいするとされている。

The gravitational attraction acting between two objects is said to be proportional to their respective masses.

Related words

潜るもぐる

to dive (into or under water); to get under, to get into, to get in, to creep into, to crawl under, to bury oneself, to burrow into, to dig oneself into, to snuggle under; to hide oneself (esp. from the government), to conceal oneself, to go underground

上下じょうげ

top and bottom, high and low, above and below, upper and lower ends, up and down; going up and down, rising and falling, fluctuating; going and coming back; upper and lower classes, ruler and ruled, the government and the people; first and second volumes; top and bottom, two-piece (outfit)

突くつく

to prick, to stab; to poke, to prod, to push, to thrust, to nudge, to hit, to strike; to use (a cane), to prop oneself up with, to press against (the floor, etc.); to attack; to brave (the rain, etc.)