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    • Melvinutinoundefined
      Melvinutino
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      of or relating to or caused by gravitation

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        gravitational meaning & definition 1 of gravitational.

      • Carmellabitaundefined
        Carmellabita
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        Pertaining to, or caused by, gravity or gravitation.

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          gravitational meaning & definition 2 of gravitational.

        • Anthonyacoxundefined
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          Gravitational refers to anything related to gravity, a fundamental force in physics that causes attraction between objects with mass. This force is what causes objects to fall towards the ground when dropped, keeps planets in orbit around the sun, and influences the formation and movement of galaxies in the universe.

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            gravitational meaning & definition 3 of gravitational.

          • Richarddokundefined
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            of or pertaining to the force of gravity; as, gravitational units

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              gravitational meaning & definition 4 of gravitational.

            • Antoinegapundefined
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              In physics, gravity (from Latin gravitas weight) is a fundamental interaction which causes mutual attraction between all things with mass or energy. Gravity is, by far, the weakest of the four fundamental interactions, approximately 1038 times weaker than the strong interaction, 1036 times weaker than the electromagnetic force and 1029 times weaker than the weak interaction. As a result, it has no significant influence at the level of subatomic particles. However, gravity is the most significant interaction between objects at the macroscopic scale, and it determines the motion of planets, stars, galaxies, and even light.
              On Earth, gravity gives weight to physical objects, and the Moons gravity is responsible for sublunar tides in the oceans (the corresponding antipodal tide is caused by the inertia of the Earth and Moon orbiting one another). Gravity also has many important biological functions, helping to guide the growth of plants through the process of gravitropism and influencing the circulation of fluids in multicellular organisms. Investigation into the effects of weightlessness has shown that gravity may play a role in immune system function and cell differentiation within the human body.
              The gravitational attraction between the original gaseous matter in the universe allowed it to coalesce and form stars which eventually condensed into galaxies, so gravity is responsible for many of the large-scale structures in the universe. Gravity has an infinite range, although its effects become weaker as objects get farther away.
              Gravity is most accurately described by the general theory of relativity (proposed by Albert Einstein in 1915), which describes gravity not as a force, but as the curvature of spacetime, caused by the uneven distribution of mass, and causing masses to move along geodesic lines. The most extreme example of this curvature of spacetime is a black hole, from which nothing—not even light—can escape once past the black holes event horizon. However, for most applications, gravity is well approximated by Newtons law of universal gravitation, which describes gravity as a force causing any two bodies to be attracted toward each other, with magnitude proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them:
              where F is the force, m1 and m2 are the masses of the objects interacting, r is the distance between the centers of the masses and G is the gravitational constant.
              Current models of particle physics imply that the earliest instance of gravity in the universe, possibly in the form of quantum gravity, supergravity or a gravitational singularity, along with ordinary space and time, developed during the Planck epoch (up to 10−43 seconds after the birth of the universe), possibly from a primeval state, such as a false vacuum, quantum vacuum or virtual particle, in a currently unknown manner. Scientists are currently working to develop a theory of gravity consistent with quantum mechanics, a quantum gravity theory, which would allow gravity to be united in a common mathematical framework (a theory of everything) with the other three fundamental interactions of physics.

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                gravitational meaning & definition 5 of gravitational.

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