Word Meanings - GRAVITATIONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to the force of gravity; as, gravitational units.
Related words: (words related to GRAVITATIONAL)
- FORCE
To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak. - FORCEPS
The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies - FORCEFUL
Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden. - FORCEMENT
The act of forcing; compulsion. It was imposed upon us by constraint; And will you count such forcement treachery J. Webster. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - FORCED
Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh. Forced draught. See under Draught. -- Forced march , a march of one or more - GRAVITY
The tendency of a mass of matter toward a center of attraction; esp., the tendency of a body toward the center of the earth; terrestrial gravitation. (more info) 1. The state of having weight; beaviness; as, the gravity of lead. 2. Sobriety of - FORCELESS
Having little or no force; feeble. These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me. Shak. - GRAVITATIONAL
Of or pertaining to the force of gravity; as, gravitational units. - FORCE PUMP
A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a pump having a bucket, or valved piston. A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump, - FORCER
1. One who, or that which, forces or drives. The solid piston of a force pump; the instrument by which water is forced in a pump. A small hand pump for sinking pits, draining cellars, etc. - FORCEMEAT
Meat chopped fine and highly seasoned, either served up alone, or used as a stuffing. - REINFORCEMENT
See REëNFORCEMENT - DEFORCEOR
See DEFORCIANT - DEFORCE
To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold. To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty. Burrill. - REENFORCE
To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reënforce an argument; to reënforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet. - OVERFORCE
Excessive force; violence. - AFFORCE
To reënforce; to strengthen. Hallam. - REENFORCEMENT
1. The act of reënforcing, or the state of being reënforced. 2. That which reënforces; additional force; especially, additional troops or force to augment the strength of any army, or ships to strengthen a navy or fleet. - ENFORCED
Compelled; forced; not voluntary. "Enforced wrong." "Enforced smiles." Shak. -- En*for"ced*ly, adv. Shak. - REENFORCED CONCRETE
Concrete having within its mass a system of strengthening iron or steel supports. = Ferro-concrete. - REINFORCE
See T - PERFORCE
By force; of necessary; at any rate. Shak.