Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or caused by gravitation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Physics) Of or pertaining to the force of gravity.
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- adjective Pertaining to, or caused by,
gravity orgravitation .
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- adjective of or relating to or caused by gravitation
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Examples
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(Force) = (gravitational mass) × (intensity of the gravitational field), where the gravitational mass is likewise a characteristic constant for the body.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The phenomenon is often called the gravitational redshift because the oscillations of light waves slow down or become redder when tugged by gravity.
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LIGO, the largest experiment so far for spying the ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves.
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