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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of, pertaining to, or caused by gravitation.

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  • adjective (Physics) Of or pertaining to the force of gravity.

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  • adjective Pertaining to, or caused by, gravity or gravitation.

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  • adjective of or relating to or caused by gravitation

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Examples

  • (Force) = (gravitational mass) × (intensity of the gravitational field), where the “gravitational mass” is likewise a characteristic constant for the body.

    Chapter 19. The Gravitational Field 1920

  • And Dr. Szabolcs Marka, an experimental astrophysicist at Columbia University who specializes in gravitational waves, is applying his expertise to malaria prevention.

    Bill Gates: Great Ideas from Unexpected Places Bill Gates 2010

  • And Dr. Szabolcs Marka, an experimental astrophysicist at Columbia University who specializes in gravitational waves, is applying his expertise to malaria prevention.

    Bill Gates: Great Ideas from Unexpected Places Bill Gates 2010

  • And Dr. Szabolcs Marka, an experimental astrophysicist at Columbia University who specializes in gravitational waves, is applying his expertise to malaria prevention.

    Bill Gates: Great Ideas from Unexpected Places Bill Gates 2010

  • Yet in these coalescences for the Weyl curvature hypothesis to be correct, and for these mergers to form larger elliptical galaxies, the non-conservative “friction” which results from luminous matter (LM) interactions must be sufficient to result in some long term gravitational pull on the dark matter (DM).

    Death in the Sky: M31 Shreds its Satellites | Universe Today 2010

  • Climateprediction. net, which uses volunteer computers to test climate models; Rosetta@home,whichexploresthree-dimensionalproteinstructures; and Einstein@Home, which started in 2005 as a search for ripples in spacetime known as gravitational waves.

    Scientific American 2010

  • The phenomenon is often called the gravitational redshift because the oscillations of light waves slow down or become redder when tugged by gravity.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • The phenomenon is often called the gravitational redshift because the oscillations of light waves slow down or become redder when tugged by gravity.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010

  • The phenomenon is often called the gravitational redshift because the oscillations of light waves slow down or become redder when tugged by gravity.

    Space News From SpaceDaily.Com 2010

  • LIGO, the largest experiment so far for spying the ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves.

    New Scientist - Online News 2010

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