gravity wave

gravity wave
1. Astron., Physics. See gravitational wave.
2. a wave created by the action of gravity on local variations in the density of a stratified fluid, as the atmosphere, or at an interface between fluids of different density, as a liquid and a gas.
[1875-80]

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