gravitativeadj.
/ˈɡravɪteɪtɪv/ Of, pertaining to, or produced by gravitation.
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gravitative1799
gravitational1855
1799 H. Davy in T. Beddoes Contrib. Physical & Med. Knowl. 40 When the repulsive motion eminently predominates over the cohesive and gravitative attraction.
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) I. 216 The particles themselves [sc. of the human body] must have an interior and gravitative being.
1855 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. ii. xi. 210 The attributes of Heavy and Light; which simply indicate certain relative amounts of gravitative force.
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.
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