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degravitate

degravitate verb: to remove (the effects of) gravity (from).

Verb

degravitate (third-person singular simple present degravitates, present participle degravitating, simple past and past participle degravitated)

  1. To remove (the effects of) gravity (from)
    • The modification itself originates from the quest of finding a mechanism which is able to degravitate the vacuum energy on cosmological scales.2016, Alain Dirkes, “Degravitation and the relaxed Einstein equations”, in arXiv

Forms of degravitate

third-person singular presentdegravitates
present participledegravitating
past participledegravitated
pastdegravitated

Origin of degravitate

From de- + gravitate.

Questions about degravitate

What does degravitate mean?
Degravitate means to remove (the effects of) gravity (from).
What part of speech is degravitate?
Degravitate is a verb.
What is the past tense of degravitate?
The past tense of degravitate is degravitated.

Words near degravitate in the dictionary

  1. degranulatory
  2. degras
  3. degrate
  4. Degrates
  5. degrative
  6. degravitate
  7. degravitated
  8. degravitates
  9. degravitating
  10. degravitation
  11. degravitator

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