the attractive effect, considered as extending throughout space, of matter on other matter.
2.
the region surrounding an astronomical body in which the force of gravitation is strong.
Origin
1915-20
Examples from the web for gravitational field
The prospector also explored the moon's gravitational field and remapped its surface.
His policy now seems to be at the centre of a gravitational field where all objects are converging.
Relativity showed that the path of a ray of light is bent by a gravitational field.
Education is on the edge of the gravitational field, getting ready to get sucked in next.
Its best minds must double their horsepower to overcome the gravitational field of tradition.
These objects must have a gravitational field powerful enough to attract objects such as neutral atoms into orbit around them.
In that respect, she maybe right, the gravitational field she emits sucks small children into orbit around her immense ego.
Only the gravitational interaction with a constant gravitational field.
Field energy is the energy stored in the gravitational field.
The shell's sheer density creates a gravitational field that slows down the clock for anyone enclosed within it.
British Dictionary definitions for gravitational field
gravitational field
noun
1.
the field of force surrounding a body of finite mass in which another body would experience an attractive force that is proportional to the product of the masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them