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gravitational wave
noun
, Astronomy, Physics.
- (in general relativity) a propagating wave of gravitational energy produced by accelerating masses, especially during catastrophic events, as the gravitational collapse of massive stars.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gravitational wave1
First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences
The gravitational waves produced by the merger took 7 billion years to reach us.
From Science News
Beginning in the 1950s, when others were still arguing whether gravitational waves existed in reality, physicist Joseph Weber sunk his career into trying to detect them.
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Peter and Sharon rented a house with a big avocado tree when they moved to California, in 2008, for Peter’s dream postdoc studying gravitational waves at CalTech.
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The more distant a collision is from Earth, the longer it takes the gravitational waves to arrive.
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The main focus of my career has been the detection of gravitational waves.
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