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(in general relativity) a propagating wave of gravitational energy produced by accelerating masses, esp. during catastrophic events, as the gravitational collapse of massive stars; wave created by the action of gravity on local variations in the density of a stratified fluid, as the atmosphere, or at an interface between fluids of different density, as a liquid and a gas

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  • Might gravity-wave detectors eventually give us a way of directly observing dark matter in this way?
  • A film about gravity-wave strengths and their temporal signatures as observed on the Earth, that's what.
  • One screen displayed stars and other stellar phenomena, not according to their output of visible light, but in gravity-wave sche'matics.
  • Differences in gravity-wave and planetary-wave simulations as well as model resolution can lead to very different projections of polar temperatures and transport of...
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