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
  • Astronomers in just the past couple of years have confirmed the existence of gravity waves.
    — Ken Bridges, Austin American-Statesman, 31 Dec. 2024
  • An international team of students has measured these gravity waves for the first time.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 8 Sep. 2024
  • If a perturbation were to jostle this fluid, a gravity wave would result.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 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 Tonga eruption confirmed that tsunamis can be caused by atmospheric gravity waves.
    — Robin George Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The interaction of the gravity wave along the cloud base gives Asperitas its wave-like features.
    — Graeme Marlton, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Some of these gravity waves were caused by air flowing from the northwest over the Appalachians and Alleghenies, which caused downstream wavelets, like ripples downstream of stone in a river.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Lemmon and some other scientists believe gravity waves may be sufficiently cooling the atmosphere to allow carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to condense enough for thin clouds to form.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 12 Feb. 2025
  • 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 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
  • The concentric rings of lightning seen in the upper atmosphere during the Hunga eruption are thought to have been created by superfast energetic waves known as gravity waves.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 27 June 2023
  • Specifically, it has been suggested that core convection, or turbulence from subsurface convection zones, could produce gravity waves that ripple outward to the surface.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • Rotation breaks internal barrier Internal gravity waves generated by churning motions in the outer envelope were already suspected to play a part.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Wheeler’s research also bolstered Einstein’s concept of the gravity wave, another idea developing from relativity.
    — Ken Bridges, Austin American-Statesman, 31 Dec. 2024
  • 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

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