WordNet
n. a gradient in the gravitational forces acting on different parts of a nonspherical object; "the gravity gradient of the moon causes the ocean tides on Earth"
Usage examples of "gravity gradient".
This time, the gravity gradient held and-as Brim planned-she continued in a wide turn to port.
With the ruby landing vector beacon steady in the Hyper-screens, he ignored his urge to flare and kept coming down with the gravs at IDLE until her gravity gradient kissed the whitecaps and launched great cascades of spray soaring past the side Hyperscreens.
In the simulators, he'd also learned that there was always a danger of flaring too high, then smashing through the gravity gradient and actually touching the surface.
That wouldn't be big enough or dense enough to give us enough of a gravity gradient.
Fassin wasn't an expert on the physics, but he was fairly certain that you needed relatively flat space, well away from a gravity gradient as steep as that round a gas-giant.
And as for the gravity gradient, perhaps the Cygnans lived in three dimensions, like monkeys or birds.
He leveled the deck only an instant before gray cascades of water shot hundreds of irals into the air on either side of the hull and Defiant settled gently onto her gravity gradient.
Now he nodded his head and led the way back up the weak gravity gradient.
I once asked McAndrew how he felt about working within ten meters of Hell, where you could actually feel the gravity gradient and the inertial dragging.
Instead he headed down the gravity gradient for the nearest kernel, two hundred meters away.
She leaped through the gravity gradient, skimmed across the microgravity, and entered the zeio-g core.
The gravity gradient changed from earth-normal to something considerably higher.
If a VBH of a sufficient gravity gradient survives long enough in the presence of sufficient mass, it should be able to absorb that mass and thus become self-sustaining.
However, it could be an effect of a very localized gravity gradient.