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gravitational interaction

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noun

  1. an interaction between particles or bodies resulting from their mass. It is very weak and occurs at all distances See interaction

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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"We have taken an important step towards carrying out an exciting experiment on this topic," says the professor of physics: "We want to measure the gravitational interaction of the muon."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

The planet's volcanism was not directly observed but rather inferred due to its significant gravitational interaction with the larger of the two other planets orbiting the dim star.

From Reuters ● May 17, 2023

And then the gravitational interaction with local light gets concentrated in this ring that’s two-and-a-half times bigger that the event horizon.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2022

Calculating the gravitational interaction of more than two objects is complicated and requires large computers.

From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016

But the nature of gravitational interaction, and in particular the reason for the mysterious proportionality between gravitational mass and inertial mass, remained completely hidden for more than 200 years.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 4, 2011

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