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Definition of Gravitative
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or caused by gravitation.
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
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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