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Definition of Gravity wave

1. Noun. (physics) a wave that is hypothesized to propagate gravity and to travel at the speed of light.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gravity Wave

Literary usage of Gravity wave

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"(The earth has already been used as a gravity wave antenna in two experiments—by Weber and at Princeton—with null results.) Fundamental Problems There are ..."

2. A Text-book of Physics by John Henry Poynting, Joseph John Thomson (1907)
"... the velocity of a gravity wave on deep water is the velocity a body would acquire under gravity by falling vertically through a distance X/47T, ..."

3. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1843)
"... the amplitude of the wave is almost of the same order of magnitude as the farthest crest of a pure gravity wave, due to the same original disturbance. ..."

4. An Introduction to Geology by William Berryman Scott (1914)
"A special manifestation of earthquakes in the bed of the sea is the great sea-wave (sometimes erroneously called the tidal wave), which is a gravity wave ..."

5. North America by Israel Cook Russell (1904)
"... produced directly by the arrival in the shoal water of a pulsation of the ocean, which becomes a true onward-moving gravity wave as it nears the land. ..."

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