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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The incepting influence is clearly the gravitative attraction of the earth operating between the moving block and the table.
From The Energy System of Matter A Deduction from Terrestrial Energy Phenomena by James Weir
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
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
This mass is assumed to be assembled and to obtain its coherent form in virtue of that universal and inherent property of matter, namely, gravitative or central attraction.
From The Energy System of Matter A Deduction from Terrestrial Energy Phenomena by James Weir
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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