gravitational field

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   a field of force surrounding a body of finite mass

   Broaderfield

Questions about gravitational field

What does gravitational field mean?

gravitational field means "a field of force surrounding a body of finite mass".

Is gravitational field a common word?

gravitational field is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.