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gravitative

gravitative adjective: causing to gravitate; tending to a centre.

Adjective

gravitative (comparative more gravitative, superlative most gravitative)

  1. Causing to gravitate; tending to a centre.
    • The particles themselves must have an interior and gravitative being, and the multeity must be a removable or at least suspensible accident.1827, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Note on a passage in the life of Henry Earl of Morland
    • If such is the case, we have here examples of deposits along the contact, and as the contact is nearly vertical Soret's principle might be urged as against the idea of gravitative settling.1922, Frank Samuel Hudson, Geology of the Cuyamaca Region of California

Forms of gravitative

comparativemore gravitative
superlativemost gravitative

Origin of gravitative

From gravitate + -ive.

Questions about gravitative

What does gravitative mean?
Gravitative means causing to gravitate; tending to a centre.
What part of speech is gravitative?
Gravitative is an adjective.

Words near gravitative in the dictionary

  1. gravitationally interacting massive particle
  2. gravitationally interacting massive particles
  3. gravitationally-challenged
  4. gravitationless
  5. gravitations
  6. gravitative
  7. gravitator
  8. gravitators
  9. gravitatory
  10. gravitaxic
  11. gravitaxis

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