gravitational mass
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That power derives from the gravitational mass of Walt Disney World, located outside Orlando.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2022
Objects and systems have properties of inertial mass and gravitational mass that are experimentally verified to be the same and that satisfy conservation principles.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
The concepts of inertial and gravitational mass were invented later by Isaac Newton.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 5, 2015
I just want to get the script and say, 'Here's what I said about gravitational mass and inertial mass, or about Einstein's general theory of relativity or about entropy.
From The Guardian • Mar. 24, 2011
Thus from the experimental point of view the question as to the sign of the gravitational mass of antiparticles remains painfully open.
From Scientific American • Mar. 4, 2011
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