GRAVITATIONALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gravitationally mean? 

• GRAVITATIONALLY (adverb)
  The adverb GRAVITATIONALLY has 1 sense:

1. with respect to gravitation

  Familiarity information: GRAVITATIONALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAVITATIONALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With respect to gravitation

Context example:

gravitationally strong forces

Pertainym:

gravitational (of or relating to or caused by gravitation)

 Context examples 

One idea is that, unlike larger objects such as Makemake, MK 2 is small enough that it cannot gravitationally hold onto a bright, icy crust, which sublimates, changing from solid to gas, under sunlight.

(Hubble Discovers Moon Orbiting the Dwarf Planet Makemake, NASA)

Black holes in certain types of galaxies like NGC 3147 are malnourished because there is not enough gravitationally captured material to feed them regularly.

(Hubble Uncovers Black Hole Disk that Shouldn't Exist, NASA)

The clumps gravitationally collapse in on themselves, growing denser and hotter in their cores until nuclear fusion ignites and a star is born.

(Herschel sees budding stars and a giant, strange ring, NASA)

Neptune and the other giant planets gravitationally influence the objects in the Kuiper Belt and beyond, collectively known as trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), which encircle the Sun on nearly-circular paths from almost all directions.

(Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’, University of Cambridge)

Dark matter acts like invisible glue, holding galaxies and galaxy clusters together gravitationally, while dark energy is thought to be responsible for the accelerated expansion of the universe.

(New Clues to Universe's Structure Revealed, NASA)

Normally, a moon like Proteus should have gravitationally swept aside or swallowed the smaller moon while clearing out its orbital path.

(Tiny Neptune Moon Spotted by Hubble May Have Broken from Larger Moon, NASA)