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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And while, from the enormous gravitative force of his parts to their common centre, the evolution of heat has been intense, the facilities of radiation have been relatively small.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
Whence it is tolerably obvious that the detachment of rings will be most frequent from those masses in which the centrifugal tendency bears the greatest ratio to the gravitative tendency.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
Nevertheless climatic changes might occasionally set the date when the gravitative pull would finally overcome inertia, and thus usher in the crustal movements that close old geologic periods and inaugurate new ones.
From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington
Part of the hydrogen thus set free escapes into space, for the earth's gravitative force does not appear great enough to hold this lightest of gases, but the oxygen remains.
From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington
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 James Weir
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