gravitative

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adjective

Causing to gravitate; tending to a centre.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

adjectivegravitative (comparative more gravitative, superlative most gravitative)

comparative more gravitative · superlative most gravitative

  1. Causing to gravitate; tending to a centre.

    The particles themselves must have an interior and gravitative being, and the multeity must be a removable or at least suspensible accident.

    1827, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Note on a passage in the life of Henry Earl of Morland
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    If such is the case, we have here examples of deposits along the contact, and as the contact is nearly vertical Soret's principle might be urged as against the idea of gravitative settling.

    1922, Frank Samuel Hudson, Geology of the Cuyamaca Region of California

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveof or relating to or caused by gravitation

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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MLA

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Chicago

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