gravitational effect

collocation in English

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gravitational
adjective
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/ˌɡræv.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən.əl/us
/ˌɡræv.əˈteɪ.ʃən.əl/
relating to gravity or gravitation (= the force that attracts objects towards ...
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effect
noun
uk
/ɪˈfekt/us
/əˈfekt/
the result of a ...
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An overall difference of 47.1 ns was measured, which consisted of the velocity effect of -5.7 ns and agravitationaleffectof 52.8 ns.
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Their lungs improved and their skeletons became heavier and stronger, better able to cope with the increasedgravitationaleffectof life on land.
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Tides generated by thegravitationaleffectof the sun are very much smaller than those generated by solar heating.
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The netgravitationaleffect"over many periods" is to produce an expansion and recollapse cycle of our family of inertial nonspining observers.
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It can only be detected by itsgravitationaleffect.
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The difference between the two, the differentialgravitationaleffectof the unevenness of the terrain, is called the "terrain effect".
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Since everything in the elevator is falling together, nogravitationaleffectcan be observed.
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For example thegravitationaleffectof a star varies with distance from one side of a planet to another.
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If gravitational effects are sufficiently strong, a dominant gravity tongue will form even in an environment characterized by more pronounced heterogeneities.
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In addition, it is found that the gravitational effects slightly decrease with increasing wave number.
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All these nearby galaxies have agravitationaleffect, to the extent that the original galaxy can have a velocity of over 1,000 km/s in an apparently random direction.
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Thus, the gravitational effects strongly suppress the phase velocity of the surface dust-acoustic wave in self-gravitation semi-bounded dusty plasmas.
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It provides the foundation for the current understanding of black holes, regions of space where thegravitationaleffectis so strong that even light can not escape.
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