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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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 Huntington, Ellsworth
Darwin shows that the gravitative interaction of the two bodies immediately began to raise tides of extraordinary height in both, therefore tending to slow down the rotational periods of both bodies.
From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by Todd, David Peck
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 Spencer, Herbert
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 Weir, James
It is clear that the radial or outward movement of the gas from the planetary surface is made directly against the gravitative attraction of the planet on the gaseous mass.
From The Energy System of Matter A Deduction from Terrestrial Energy Phenomena by Weir, James
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