gravitationally

American  

[grav-i-tay-shuhn-uh-lee] / ˌgræv ɪˈteɪ ʃən ə li /

adverb

1. with regard to, by, or through gravitation.

2. by natural attraction.

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Other Word Forms

• antigravitationally adverb
• non-gravitationally adverb

Example Sentences

"To lose the kind of mass we saw in just the last few years… it almost certainly requires two stars gravitationally bound to each other," he explained.

From Science Daily • Jan. 28, 2026

The two are gravitationally bound companions destined to unleash a fiery blast into the cosmos.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2024

And then the third condition was—and this is the one designed to eliminate bodies like Pluto—it has to gravitationally dominate its orbit in order to clear the neighborhood of its own orbit from other bodies.

From National Geographic • Feb. 16, 2024

An experiment to test the quantum nature of gravity via gravitationally mediated entanglement was proposed by Bose et. al. and by C. Marletto and V. Vadral.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2023

Newton noted that the matter in the tails of comets is dissipated in interplanetary space, lost to the comet and little by little attracted gravitationally to nearby planets.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan