massive object

collocation in English

meaningsofmassiveandobject

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withobject.
massive
adjective
uk
/ˈmæs.ɪv/us
/ˈmæs.ɪv/
very large in size, amount, ...
See more atmassive
object
noun
uk
/ˈɒb.dʒɪkt/us
/ˈɑːb.dʒɪkt/
a thing that you can see or touch but that is not usually a living animal, plant, ...
See more atobject

(Definition ofmassiveandobjectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmassive object

These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
What are the means by which to comprehend such amassiveobjectwith apparently all but circumstantial relationship to its context?
From theCambridge English Corpus
The maximum angular velocity of anymassiveobjecttherefore depends on the size of the object.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Only timelike intervals can be physically traversed by amassiveobject.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
However, the system moves back and forth, indicating that there is amassiveobjectorbiting them.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
To detect it, it is necessary to examine a verymassiveobject, or build an instrument that is very sensitive.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Escape velocity, as its name suggests, is the velocity a body must achieve to escape from amassiveobject.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
At time of discovery, researchers said it may represent the mostmassiveobjectever discovered in the early universe.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
This is the frame that models the experience of static observers who use rocket engines to "hover over themassiveobject".
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
The warping of the extra dimension is analogous to the warping of spacetime in the vicinity of amassiveobject, such as a black hole.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Some dynamics in the disk are necessary to allow orbiting gas to lose angular momentum and fall onto the centralmassiveobject.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
They predicted that the rotation of amassiveobjectwould distort the spacetime metric, making the orbit of a nearby test particle precess.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
The result will be a frame which we can use to study the physical experience of observers who fall freely and radially toward themassiveobject.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
The gravitational field, and thus the acceleration of a small body in the space around themassiveobject, is the negative gradient of the gravitational potential.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
The implication of this is that a large,massiveobjectcan float in a relatively small volume of liquid, provided that it is surrounded by it.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Another explanation that was offered was that it was gravitational redshift that was being measured; this would require amassiveobjectthat would also explain the high luminosities.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
By comparing these results with standard models, the astronomers concluded that the most likely cause was the gravitational pull of a dense,massiveobjectsuch as a black hole.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Want to learn more?
Go to the definition ofmassive
Go to the definition ofobject
See other collocations withobject