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gravi-

Weight; gravity.

Latin gravitas, weight.

Gravimetry is the measurement of weight; gravitation is the mutual force of attraction between masses (adjective gravitational); the graviton is a hypothetical quantum of gravitational energy, regarded as a particle.

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