gravitative, a.
(ˈgrævɪteɪtɪv)
[f. gravitate v. + -ive.]
Of, pertaining to, or produced by gravitation.
| 1799 Sir H. Davy in Beddoes Contrib. Phys. & Med. Knowl. 40 When the repulsive motion eminently predominates over the cohesive and gravitative attraction. 1818 Coleridge in Rem. (1836) I. 216 The particles themselves [of the human body] must have an interior and gravitative being. 1855 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (1872) II. vi. xii. 156 The attributes of Heavy and Light; which indicate amounts of gravitative force in relation to bulk. 1891 Nature 26 July 291 That the heat developed by the falling together of the earth's materials arose simply from their gravitative potential energy. |