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Grammar : Verb
Spell : grav-i-teyt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈgræv ɪˌteɪt


Definition of gravitating

Origin :
  • 1640s, "exert weight, move downward," from Modern Latin gravitatus, past participle of gravitare "gravitate," from Latin gravitas "heaviness, weight" (see gravity). Meaning "To be affected by gravity" is from 1690s. Figurative use from 1670s. Related: Gravitated; gravitating. The classical Latin verb was gravare "to make heavy, burden, oppress, aggravate."
  • verb be drawn toward; fall to
Example sentences :
  • A gravitating instrument for the same purpose as the training-pendulum.
  • Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth
  • Plainly, this was the gravitating point—the centre of motive and motion.
  • Extract from : « The War Trail » by Mayne Reid
  • Matthews' chip-pile showed where the winnings were gravitating.
  • Extract from : « The Plow-Woman » by Eleanor Gates
  • It is an excellent symptom of his intellect, this of gravitating irresistibly towards realities.
  • Extract from : « History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Volume IV. (of XXI.) » by Thomas Carlyle
  • The original heat of every member of the solar system, including the sun, depended on the gravitating energy of its own mass.
  • Extract from : « The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature » by Various
  • He was gravitating surely, even if he did not yet realize it clearly, toward philosophy.
  • Extract from : « The Letters of William James, Vol. 1 » by William James
  • Possibly, unknown to the girls, she had been gravitating towards it ever since her principal's hasty war wedding.
  • Extract from : « A harum-scarum schoolgirl » by Angela Brazil
  • They lingered month after month, gravitating between London and the Garths', until Cecil's child was born.
  • Extract from : « Floyd Grandon's Honor » by Amanda Minnie Douglas
  • The opposite order of genius is, as we have previously called it, centripetal, gravitating earthward.
  • Extract from : « Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. July, 1863, No. LXIX. » by Various
  • Supposing one particle or mass of matter to exist alone, and there can be no attractive or gravitating force.
  • Extract from : « Christianity and Greek Philosophy » by Benjamin Franklin Cocker

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