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adjectiveof or relating to or caused by gravitation
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Definition that contains gravitational
- mass the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
- capture a process whereby a star or planet holds an object in its gravitational field
- tide the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon
- gal a unit of gravitational acceleration equal to one centimeter per second per second (named after Galileo)
- infusion (medicine) the passive introduction of a substance (a fluid or drug or electrolyte) into a vein or between tissues (as by gravitational force)
- hooke English scientist who formulated the law of elasticity and proposed a wave theory of light and formulated a theory of planetary motion and proposed the inverse square law of gravitational attraction and discovered the cellular structure of cork and introduced the term `cell' into biology and invented a balance spring for watches (1635-1703)
- weightless having little or no weight or apparent gravitational pull; light
- graviton a gauge boson that mediates the (extremely weak) gravitational interactions between particles
- gravitation movement downward resulting from gravitational attraction
- syzygy the straight line configuration of 3 celestial bodies (as the sun and earth and moon) in a gravitational system