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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To raise one pound of lead through a given distance against the gravitative attraction of the earth requires no greater expenditure of energy than to raise one pound of hydrogen gas through the same distance.
From The Energy System of Matter A Deduction from Terrestrial Energy Phenomena by James Weir
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
This movement is carried out in the lines of the earth's gravitative attraction, and to a certain extent over the surface of the containing vessel.
From The Energy System of Matter A Deduction from Terrestrial Energy Phenomena by James Weir
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 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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