gravitational constant, universal gravitational constant, constant of gravitation, G

(physics) the universal constant relating force to mass and distance in Newton's law of gravitation

• constant — a number representing a quantity assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context

• law 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 them