Meanings
verbdegravitate (third-person singular simple present degravitates, present participle degravitating, simple past and past participle degravitated)
present singular third person degravitates · participle present degravitating · participle past degravitated · past degravitated
- natural sciencesTo remove (the effects of) gravity (from)
The modification itself originates from the quest of finding a mechanism which is able to degravitate the vacuum energy on cosmological scales.
2016, Alain Dirkes, “Degravitation and the relaxed Einstein equations”, in arXiv
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