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gravitational force

[ grav-i-tey-shuh-nl fawrs ]

noun

, Aerospace,
  1. a unit of acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity at the earth's surface:

    Fighter pilots train to tolerate very high G-forces with breathing techniques and specialized equipment.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of gravitational force1

First recorded in 1690–1710
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Example Sentences

The bar’s slowdown hints that a gravitational force is acting on it.

Along with Marshall, Sood’s team has been focused on trajectory designs for the cruiser, which is set to monitor the sun near the L1 Lagrange Point—a spot between the Earth and sun where their gravitational forces cancel each other out.

The bar’s slowdown hints that a gravitational force is acting on it, namely, the pull of dark matter in the galaxy.

A room on the space station could rotate fast enough that astronauts would feel a gravitational force of about 1 g — the same as they would feel on Earth.

Thorne finessed the problem by using ideas from quantum gravity that allow Cooper to travel back and communicate with Murph by pushing objects to create gravitational forces that she senses, without violating anything.

That means twice as far from the black hole, the gravitational force is roughly four times as weak.

We have a sort of fourth-dimensional lens that concentrates the lines of any gravitational force.

Moreover, the fact of atmospheric pressure is itself a case of one of the commonest of all facts—weight or gravitational force.

This rate, he thinks, is regulated by the gravitational force.

In this matter Kant regards himself as defending the Newtonian theory of an attractive gravitational force.

There was a gravitational force here for which I was not allowing.

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