Meanings
comparative more gravitative · superlative most gravitative
- 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 Morland1 more example
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
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Origin
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