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PRONUNCIATION OF GRAVITATIONAL MASS

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GRAVITATIONAL MASS

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Gravitational mass is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GRAVITATIONAL MASS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

gravitational mass

Mass

In physics, mass (from Greek μᾶζα (maza), meaning "barley cake, lump ") is a property of a physical body which determines the body's resistance to being accelerated by a force and the strength of its mutual gravitational attraction with other bodies. The SI unit of mass is the kilogram (kg). As mass is difficult to measure directly, usually balances or scales are used to measure the weight of an object, and the weight is used to calculate the object's mass. For everyday objects and energies well-described by Newtonian physics, mass describes the amount of matter in an object. However, at very high speeds or for subatomic particles, special relativity shows that energy is an additional source of mass. Thus, any stationary body having mass has an equivalent amount of energy, and all forms of energy resist acceleration by a force and have gravitational attraction. There are several distinct phenomena which can be used to measure mass.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GRAVITATIONAL MASS

gravitas
gravitate
gravitation
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gravitational constant
gravitational field
gravitational force
gravitational interaction
gravitational lens
gravitational pull
gravitational wave
gravitationally
gravitative
gravities
gravitino
gravitometer
graviton
gravity
gravity anomaly
gravity cell

WORDS THAT END LIKE GRAVITATIONAL MASS

air mass
amass
atomic mass
biomass
black mass
body mass
centre of mass
conservation of mass
critical mass
groundmass
in the mass
inertial mass
land mass
landmass
mass
relative atomic mass
relative molecular mass
requiem mass
rest mass
solar mass

Synonyms and antonyms of gravitational mass in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «gravitational mass» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GRAVITATIONAL MASS

Find out the translation of gravitational mass to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of gravitational mass from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gravitational mass» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

引力质量
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

masa gravitatoria
570 millions of speakers

English

gravitational mass
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गुरुत्वाकर्षण जन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كتلة الجاذبية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гравитационная масса
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

massa gravitacional
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মহাকর্ষীয় ভর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

masse gravitationnelle
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jisim graviti
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

schwere Masse
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

重力質量
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

중력 질량
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Massa gravitasi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

khối lượng hấp dẫn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஈர்ப்பு விசையியல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गुरुत्वाकर्षण वस्तुमान
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yerçekimi kütlesi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

massa gravitazionale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

masa grawitacyjna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гравітаційна маса
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

masa gravitațională
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βαρυτική μάζα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

swaartekrag massa
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gravitationsmassa
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gravitasjonsmasse
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of gravitational mass

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GRAVITATIONAL MASS»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about gravitational mass

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GRAVITATIONAL MASS»

Discover the use of gravitational mass in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gravitational mass and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Cosmic Sphere
There are really two kinds of mass that all material objects possess — inertial mass and gravitational mass. The gravitational mass of an object is the amount of gravitation produced by the object. Gravitation is just the force of gravity upon ...
Kip K. Sewell, 1999
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Recent Advances in Metrology and Fundamental Constants: ...
The gravitational mass is a measurement of the property of the body to attract gravitationally any other body (gravitational active mass), or to be gravitationally attracted by any other body (gravitational passive mass). Assuming the validity of  ...
Terry J. Quinn, T. J. Quinn, S. Leschiutta, 2001
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Gravitation and Inertia
3.3 ACTIVE AND PASSIVE GRAVITATIONAL MASS According to the weak equivalence principle the inertial mass M. of a particle is equal to the passive gravitational mass Mgp (see § 3.2.11. Furthermore. in general relativity. and in other ...
Ignazio Ciufolini, John Archibald Wheeler, 1995
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Gravitational Experiments in the Laboratory
Also, according to Bondi (1957) and Dicke (1964), the principle may be stated as: ' The ratio of the passive gravitational mass and the inertial mass of a test body is constant.' Newton (1687) was the first to notice the importance of the ...
Y. T. Chen, Alan Cook, 2005
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Introductory Special Relativity
Appendi.x C : The Principle of Equivalence 247 C.2 EQUIVALENCE OF GRAVITATIONAL MASS AND INERTIAL MASS The gravitational muss of a body is the mass (hat appears in Newton's law of universal gravitation, which is equation (1.9).
W G V Rosser, 1992
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The Notions of Mass in Gravitational and Particle Physics
Notions of inertial and gravitational mass have been fundamental in physics since the time of Newton first introduced both concepts. Presently the manner in which notions of gravitational mass enter into contemporary physical theory is via  ...
Gianluca Castellani, 2008
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Theory and Experiment in Gravitational Physics
and U(xfl) is the quasi-Newtonian potential, given by U(Xj = £ tOuM* (6.41) b *a rab where [wiA^aiJL is the "active gravitational mass" of the bth body, given by [ mA(aj]» = «»{ 1 + (4/J - y - 3 - 3« - ia3 - K i - 2C2)Qb/«. + C3£»/m» } (6.42) Note that ...
Clifford M. Will, 1993
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The Genesis of General Relativity: Sources and Interpretations
of the order If the gravitational mass did not change simultaneously with the inertial mass of the system, then the inertial mass would have to differ from the gravitational mass for various elements far more than Eötvös's | experiments would ...
Michel Janssen, Jürgen Renn, John Norton, 2007
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GCE A-level Physics Critical Guide (Yellowreef):
Passive gravitational mass is a measure of the strength of an object's interaction with a gravitational field. Within the same gravitational field, an object with a smaller passive gravitational mass experiences a smaller force than an object with a ...
Thomas Bond, Chris Hughes, 2013
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Energy and Mass in Relativity Theory
The above inconsistent conclusion was extremely fruitful for Einstein's further thinking, which led him finally to general relativity. It implied that a photon possessing inertial mass m = El<? has to possess the same gravitational mass and hence ...
Lev Borisovič Okuň, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GRAVITATIONAL MASS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gravitational mass is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Universe itself
What is truly remarkable is that Einstein conceived it from a few basic principles such as the equivalency of inertial and gravitational mass. «Nature.com, Jul 15»
2
Stanford team develops technique to magnetically levitate single cells
The device works by balancing the gravitational mass of a cell against its inherent magnetic signature, which is negligible when compared with ... «Scope, Jun 15»
3
Special Relativity and the Road Not Taken
We know it must depend on that ratio, GM/c2 R. We know it must go to unity as either the gravitational mass goes to zero or the distance gets ... «Science 2.0, Jun 15»
4
The female mathematician who changed the course of physics—but …
... the strength of the gravitational force was the same mass that appeared in Newton's second law of motion, F = ma; gravitational mass was the ... «Ars Technica, May 15»
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Hubble spots a sloppy, Nasty star in Milky Way
... losing its hydrogen, is absorbed by the gravitational mass of the nearby smaller companion star and exposing the original star's helium core. «Siliconrepublic.com, May 15»
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Random Evolution, Intelligent Design or Both?
... the movement of the balls, such as the force of the impact, the nature of the environment (billiard table) and the gravitational mass of the balls. «Huffington Post, May 15»
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Viewpoint: Weighing Dark Matter Halos with the Cosmic Microwave …
The method involves statistically measuring distortions in the CMB hot and cold spots by the gravitational mass of a foreground object, just as ... «Physics, Apr 15»
8
Angelic Bodies
... a body's resistance to acceleration by a force acting upon it (inertial mass), and its gravitational attraction to other bodies (gravitational mass). «First Things, Mar 15»
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Dropping weights in space to test Einstein's general relativity
If this were to happen, it would violate the mass equivalence principle which posits inertial mass and gravitational mass are absolutely one of ... «ZME Science, Mar 15»
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"New Phenomena Hints Dark Matter May Be an Unknown Kind of …
Such observations eventually led to the theory of an invisible, stabilizing source of gravitational mass, or dark matter. The AMS experiment ... «The Daily Galaxy, Feb 15»

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