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Definition of Gravitate

Gravitate
Gravitate Grav"i*tate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gravitated; p. pr. & vb. n. Gravitating.] [Cf. F. graviter. See Gravity.] To obey the law of gravitation; to exert a force Or pressure, or tend to move, under the influence of gravitation; to tend in any direction or toward any object. Why does this apple fall to the ground? Because all bodies gravitate toward each other. --Sir W. Hamilton. Politicians who naturally gravitate towards the stronger party. --Macaulay.

Meaning of Gravitate from wikipedia

- forces in 1674, stating that all celestial bodies have an attraction or gravitating power towards their own centers, and also attract all the other celestial...
- James Blundell (27 December 1790, in Holborn, London – 15 January 1878, in St George Hanover Square, London) was an English obstetrician who performed...
- Opposition". In first-past-the-post ****emblies, where the tendency to gravitate into two major parties or party groupings operates strongly, government...
- constants (essentially large capacitors); he called such a device a "gravitator". Brown made the claim to observers and in the media that his experiments...
- Stanton was a staunch Unionist, pro-business, conservative Democrat who gravitated toward the Radical Republican faction. He worked more often and more closely...
- portraitists, based respectively in the United States and France. Welsh painters gravitated towards the art capitals of Europe. Augustus John and his sister Gwen...
- Foundation were the cradle of democratization and that all the NGOs that gravitated around the Soros Foundation undeniably carried the revolution. She opines...
- Americans who felt like outsiders, and ****imilation was the key thought—they gravitated to black music and baseball, looking for an alternative culture." Simon...
- Reggio Calabria: Domenico Antonio Ferro. 1670. De motionibus naturalibus a gravitate pendentibus (in Latin). Reggio Calabria: Domenico Antonio Ferro. 1670...
- businessman and the leader of the feared Ghost Dragons. He eventually gravitates to Gotham, where he seizes control of the Chinatown district from the...