Definition of Gravitating. Meaning of Gravitating. Synonyms of Gravitating

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Definition of Gravitating

Gravitating
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 Gravitating 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...
- & Bonnell, I. The effect of cooling on the global stability of self-gravitating protoplanetary discs. MNRAS, 339, 1025 (2003) Chamberlin, T. C. The Planetesimal...
- James Blundell (27 December 1790, in Holborn, London – 15 January 1878, in St George Hanover Square, London) was an English obstetrician who performed...
- in astrophysics, physics of gravitating systems and plasma physics. He discovered new types of instabilities in gravitating media, created the theory of...
- scalene) ellipsoid under hydrostatic equilibrium which arises when a self-gravitating, fluid body of uniform density rotates with a constant angular velocity...
- 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...
- displacements in a gravitational field – generated by the relative motion of gravitating m****es – that radiate outward from their source at the speed of light...
- events, as measured by observers situated at varying distances from a gravitating m****. The lower the gravitational potential (the closer the clock is...
- is much smaller than the overall force or average impulse of the main gravitating body and which is external to the two orbiting bodies causes an acceleration...