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acceleration of gravity

noun

Medical Definition of ACCELERATION OF GRAVITY

:  the acceleration of a body in free fall under the influence of the earth's gravity expressed as the rate of increase of velocity per unit of time with the value 980.665 centimeters per second per second—abbreviation gram

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