Definition of Gravitative

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or caused by gravitation.

Exact synonyms: Gravitational
Derivative terms: Gravitation, Gravitation, Gravitate
Partainyms: Gravitation, Gravity

Definition of Gravitative

1. a. Causing to gravitate; tending to a center.

Definition of Gravitative

1. Adjective. Causing to gravitate; tending to a centre. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gravitative

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gravitative

gravitational propulsion
gravitational radiation
gravitational redshift
gravitational singularities
gravitational singularity
gravitational slingshot
gravitational theory
gravitational ulcer
gravitational units
gravitational wave
gravitational waves
gravitationally
gravitationally challenged
gravitations
gravitative (current term)
gravitaxis
gravithermal
gravitic
gravities
gravitino
gravitinoless
gravitinos
gravitoelectric
gravitoelectromagnetic
gravitoelectromagnetism
gravitomagnetic
gravitomagnetism
gravitometer
gravitometers

Literary usage of Gravitative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Igneous Rocks and Their Origin by Reginald Aldworth Daly (1914)
"gravitative Differentiation.—The sinking of crystals is expected to have its ... Meanwhile we may use the expression "gravitative differentiation" as a name ..."

2. Modes of Motion: Or, Mechanical Conceptions of Physical Phenomena by Amos Emerson Dolbear (1897)
"MATTER IS gravitative. The law of gravitation is held as being universal. It states that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other ..."

3. The Fractional Family, Being the First Part of Spirit--mathematics--matter by Arthur Young (1864)
"... but the gravitative and Organic the Matter side. 8. To connect therefore, these respectively separated classes of Natural Phenomena, separated because ..."

4. Journal by Institution of Electrical Engineers Radio Section (1903)
"different properties of the ether being involved in the two kinds of force—gravitative and electric. As to the nature of the gravitation constant itself we ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1901)
"The force which drives the water is gravitative stress. gravitative stress is everywhere and all the time at work. ..."

6. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1883)
"If, for illustration, the average momentum of the particles of the nebula was just equivalent to their gravitative energy, then a portion of this energy ..."

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