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gravitative en · ADJ

Etymology

From gravitate + -ive.

Meanings

1. Causing to gravitate; tending to a centre.
   • 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:
   • 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:

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