How to Use gravity wave in a Sentence

gravity wave

noun
  • But gravity waves can come to us from beyond the light barrier.
    NBC News, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The combination of the two was so powerful, that the equivalent of the mass of five Suns was turned into gravity waves — waves that reached Earth on July 29th.
    Mary Beth Griggs, The Verge, 3 Dec. 2018
  • That induced an up and down oscillating motion known as a gravity wave — akin to the ripples produced by a bobber in a pond.
    Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The interaction of the gravity wave along the cloud base gives Asperitas its wave-like features.
    Graeme Marlton, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2018
  • If a perturbation were to jostle this fluid, a gravity wave would result.
    Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Even when the objects generating a gravity wave are as massive as neutron stars or large black holes, the blip’s effects are tiny—a distortion a thousandth of the width of a proton over the course of a 4km-long detector arm.
    The Economist, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The cloud ridge was located above a region of highlands called Aphrodite Terra and seemed to be a shockingly large atmospheric gravity wave—not unlike a stationary ripple above a rock in a flowing stream.
    Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 22 June 2018
  • Today a host of sci-fi-worthy gizmos monitor the incessant deluge of cosmic particles as well as the intermittent quiver of gravity waves washing over our planet.
    Alan Hirshfeld, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Programmers have used Python to power innovation in everything from the detection of gravity waves (resulting in last year’s Nobel Prize in Physics) to reducing the cost of developing new drugs.
    Paul Romer, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2018
  • With quantum sensors, boosting the sensitivity to gravity waves can result in more data before a quake, giving valuable time for issuing a warning.
    Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023
  • This is because mountains provide the lift, wind shear and associated gravity waves needed to produce these unusual cloud formations.
    Kathryn Prociv, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Atmospheric gravity waves can be seen in satellite images taken by Australian weather forecast service Weatherzone on Monday and Tuesday.
    Maisy Mok, CNN, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Suspending atoms at ultra-cold temperatures (near 0 degrees Kelvin) in laser arrays, quantum sensors can detect minute changes in gravity waves while becoming even more sensitive when quantum entangled.
    Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023

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