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Gravity vs Graviperception - What's the difference?

gravity | graviperception |

As nouns the difference between gravity and graviperception

is that gravity is resultant force on earth's surface, of the attraction by the earth's masses, and the centrifugal pseudo-force caused by the earth's rotation while graviperception is perception of gravity.

gravity

Noun

  • Resultant force on Earth's surface, of the attraction by the Earth's masses, and the centrifugal pseudo-force caused by the Earth's rotation.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
  • Gravitation, universal force exercised by two bodies onto each other
    (In casual discussion, gravity and gravitation are often used interchangeably).
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01, author=Michael Riordan, volume=100, issue=1, page=86
  • , magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Tackling Infinity , passage=Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity , have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.}}
  • The state or condition of having weight; weight; heaviness.
  • Specific gravity.
  • The state or condition of being grave (graveness).
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    graviperception

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • perception of gravity
  • * 1904 , Nature Publishing Group, Nature
  • And I am glad to note that both Pfeffer and Czapek are not disinclined to believe in the possibility of various forms of graviperception .
  • * 1992 , Cees M Karssen, Leendert C Loon, Dick Vreugdenhil, Progress in Plant Growth Regulation
  • The take-home message from these observations is open to interpretation, but may be that although amyloplasts play a pivotal role in graviperception ,...