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degravitate

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English

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Etymology

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From de- +‎ gravitate.

Verb

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degravitate (third-person singular simple present degravitates, present participle degravitating, simple past and past participle degravitated)

  1. (physics) To remove (the effects of) gravity (from)
    • 2016, Alain Dirkes, “Degravitation and the relaxed Einstein equations”, in arXiv[1]:
      The modification itself originates from the quest of finding a mechanism which is able to degravitate the vacuum energy on cosmological scales.
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