gravitative
Americanadjective
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of, involving, or produced by gravitation
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tending or causing to gravitate
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Indeed, Musschenbroek, his immediate disciple, describes the gravitative principle as "amicitia"; while Lichtenberg tells us that it is the "longing of the heavenly bodies for one another!"
From The Forerunners by Rolland, Romain
But, whereas gravitative knowledge is reciprocal—the sun knowing the earth in the same fashion as the earth knows the sun—cognitive knowledge is not reciprocal.
From Spencer's Philosophy of Science The Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at the Museum 7 November, 1913 by Morgan, C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd)
In other words, matter or material is being moved in the lines or field of this gravitative force.
From The Energy System of Matter A Deduction from Terrestrial Energy Phenomena by Weir, James
The atmosphere of the planet forms an integral portion of its material, partakes of its rotatory motion, and is bound to the solid core by the mutual gravitative forces.
From The Energy System of Matter A Deduction from Terrestrial Energy Phenomena by Weir, James
If gravitative attraction took any such appreciable time to go from one astronomical body to another as does light, it would make very considerable differences in the paths of the planets and the earth.
From The Machinery of the Universe Mechanical Conceptions of Physical Phenomena by Dolbear, A. E. (Amos Emerson)
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