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gravity wave

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from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun (physics) a wave that is hypothesized to propagate gravity and to travel at the speed of light

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  1. undulation
  2. wave

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  • alexz commented on the word gravity wave

    There are some people out there who insist it's "gravitational wave" instead of "gravity wave", as if the 'ational' latin suffix totally changes the meaning of a word, or that we will get the term confused with the wave features in clouds and water.

    I'll just assume Neil deGrasse Tyson pluto'd the extra latin suffix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH70kTm25Es

    February 11, 2016