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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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 A. E. (Amos Emerson) Dolbear
In such circumstances, the earth being assumed to be divided into two equal masses, the maximum limiting value of the gravitative attraction would clearly be attained.
From The Energy System of Matter A Deduction from Terrestrial Energy Phenomena by James Weir
It is to be noted that a gaseous column or atmosphere of this nature would be in a state of complete equilibrium under the action of the gravitative attraction—provided there were no external disturbing influences.
From The Energy System of Matter A Deduction from Terrestrial Energy Phenomena by James Weir
If our bodies were suddenly annihilated, the earth’s gravitative attraction would be altered, and the whole solar system would have to readjust itself to the slight diminution.
From Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. by J. Arthur Hill
Everything then that possesses gravitative attraction is matter in the sense in which that term is used in this law.
From The Machinery of the Universe Mechanical Conceptions of Physical Phenomena by A. E. (Amos Emerson) Dolbear
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