gravitational interaction

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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interaction
noun[C or U]
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/ˌɪn.təˈræk.ʃən/us
/ˌɪn.t̬ɚˈræk.ʃən/
an occasion when two or more people or things communicate with or react to ...
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The protoplanet evolves under thegravitationalinteractionof the central star and the protoplanetary disc.
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Thegravitationalinteractionbetween the spiral wave pattern and the planet leads to a torque acting on the planet and inducing its migration into the magnetosphere.
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Einstein hypothesized two fluid bodies of the same mass, sufficiently distant from each other and from all other masses for us to consider onlygravitationalinteractionwithin each body.
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For charged particles, the electromagnetic force overwhelms the much weakergravitationalinteraction.
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Direct experiments on neutral antihydrogen have not detected any difference between thegravitationalinteractionof antimatter, compared to normal matter.
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Gravitationalinteractionwith nearby stars and galactic tides modified cometary orbits to make them more circular.
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For the same reason, such a shell would have no netgravitationalinteractionwith anything else inside it.
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Thegravitationalinteractionamong these galaxies should continue for hundreds of millions of years.
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These clusters have a lifespan measured in tens or hundreds of millions of years, as they eventually disperse throughgravitationalinteractionwith other bodies.
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The migration of this planet would likely requiregravitationalinteractionwith a second, higher-mass planet in a smaller orbit.
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He is involved in many space-based experiments aimed at testing foundational issues ofgravitationalinteraction.
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The hypothesis is that thegravitationalinteractionis likewise mediated by an as yet undiscovered elementary particle, dubbed as "the graviton".
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If both were actually observed, then any difference in thegravitationalinteractionwould have to be very small.
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About a quarter of all galaxies are irregular, and the peculiar shapes of such galaxies may be the result ofgravitationalinteraction.
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Spica is a rotating ellipsoidal variable, which is a non-eclipsing close binary star system where the stars are mutually distorted through theirgravitationalinteraction.
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These clumps of dust could be explained bygravitationalinteractionwith a planet orbiting just inside the ring of dust.
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Due to the extremely tenuous distribution of matter in galaxies, these are not collisions in the normal sense of the word, but rathergravitationalinteraction.
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Therefore, it must have been tugged into its current eccentric orbit by agravitationalinteractionwith another body.
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This would not be true if antimatter had negative gravitational mass, which is considered highly unlikely, though not yet empirically disproven (see "gravitationalinteractionof antimatter").
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The planetary environment of our hypothetical example can be thought of as a selective system within which gravitational interactions select particles in certain orbits.
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