(n.) An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation.
(n.) The act or property of attracting; the effect of the power or operation of attraction.
(n.) The power or act of alluring, drawing to, inviting, or engaging; an attractive quality; as, the attraction of beauty or eloquence.
(n.) That which attracts; an attractive object or feature.
Example Sentences:
(1) Osteoporosis and its treatment have attracted much attention in recent years, especially since the widespread recognition of its association with the menopause.
(2) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
(3) In view of many ethical and legal problems, connected in some countries with obtaining human fetal tissue for transplantation, cross-species transplants would be an attractive alternative.
(4) So I am, of course, intrigued about the city’s newest tourist attraction: a hangover bar, open at weekends, in which sufferers can come in and have a bit of a lie down in soothingly subdued lighting, while sipping vitamin-enriched smoothies.
(5) Older women and those who present more archetypically as butch have an easier time of it (because older women in general are often sidelined by the press and society) and because butch women are often viewed as less attractive and tantalising to male editors and readers.
(6) Synthetic N-formylmethionyl peptides are chemotactic attractants for human polymorphonuclear leukocytes.
(7) The Chinese model of development, which combines political repression and economic liberalism, has attracted numerous admirers in the developing world.
(8) But with the advantages and attractions that Scotland already has, and, more importantly, taking into account the morale boost, the sheer energisation of a whole people that would come about because we would finally have our destiny at least largely back in our own hands again – I think we could do it.
(9) A viral aetiology for this group of diseases remains an attractive but unsubstantiated hypothesis.
(10) The strongest field distortions and attractive forces occurred with 17-7PH stainless steel clips.
(11) Bar manager Joe Mattheisen, 66, who has worked at the hole-in-the-wall bar since 1997, said the bar has attracted younger, straighter crowds in recent years.
(12) As for fish attractiveness, motion, freshness, size, color and species were found as important parameters in the food-preference mechanism.
(13) "That attracted all the wrong sorts for a few years, so the clubs put their prices up to keep them out and the prices never came down again."
(14) His coding talent attracted attention early: a music-recommendation program he wrote as a teenager brought approaches from both Microsoft and AOL.
(15) In a BBC Radio 4 performance that attempts to underline his status as a normal bloke – although he admits he was too "square" to attract a girlfriend at university – Miliband's luxury item is a weekly chicken tikka masala from his local north London Indian takeaway.
(16) But it has already attracted attention for paying some deferred bonuses early in the US to avoid a hike in tax rates.
(17) Cuadrilla's admission comes after more than a fortnight's protests at the Balcombe site, which have attracted international attention.
(18) Although selenium deficiency in livestock is consequently now rare in Oregon, selenium-deficient soils and attendant selenium deficiency conditions have been reported near the Kesterson Wildlife Refuge in the Northern part of the San Joaquin Valley, California, where, paradoxically, selenium toxicity in wildfowl, nesting near evaporation ponds, occurred and attracted wide attention.
(19) It has been a place of pilgrimage for many centuries and a tourist attraction probably since Roman times.
(20) A nine-year-old Scottish girl who attracted two million readers to a blog documenting her school lunches , consisting of unappealing and unhealthy dishes served up to pupils, has been forced to end the project after the council banned her from taking pictures of the food in school.
Gravitation
Definition:
(n.) The act of gravitating.
(n.) That species of attraction or force by which all bodies or particles of matter in the universe tend toward each other; called also attraction of gravitation, universal gravitation, and universal gravity. See Attraction, and Weight.
Example Sentences:
(1) Though increased gravitational stress probably changed regional emptying sequences little during full MEFV maneuvers, substantial changes of emptying sequence were expected during partial maneuvers.
(2) The modelling of physiologic responses to gravitational stress in this experiment revealed a negative correlation between changes in sympathetic tone (as reflected by plasma NE) and ANF levels.
(3) Although all of the primary particulate fractions exhibited binding activities, the bulk of the total homogenate binding activity was associated with the washed particles sedimenting at the lower gravitational forces; this was observed with either atria or ventricles of dog, guinea pig, rabbit, hamster, and rat.
(4) On testing the peripheral vestibular apparatus of astronauts with healthy labyrinths, nystagmus was observed when flushing the ears with hot or cold water even in the absence of gravitation.
(5) Uber drivers are employees not contractors, California rules Read more Like many Ethiopian immigrants in San Diego , Sahilu gravitated towards driving a cab because he didn’t speak much English and couldn’t get recognition for his educational qualifications – in his case, a chemistry degree.
(6) The quantitative evaluation of biopsy material can be used to provide prognostic information in the gravitational syndrome.
(7) Other inertial and the gravitational moments were negligible.
(8) Subpopulations of rabbit spleen cells which respond to T and B mitogens, respectively, can be distinguished by sedimentation velocity in the earth's gravitational field.
(9) These mechanisms include: convective graviosmosis and related effects, gravidiffusional graviosmosis, and osmotic transport aided by gravitational force in multi-membrane systems.
(10) Red cell aggregate sedimentation under gravitation produces pronounced and rapid "phase separation effects" culminating in "compaction stasis" (CS), i.e.
(11) Changes in gravitational stress were not associated with changes of either full or partial MEFV curves.
(12) This is because cosmologists believe only inflation can amplify the primordial gravitational waves into a detectable signal.
(13) When subjects changed from sitting to lying, whilst maintaining the head in the same position in relation to the body, Irs increased and Crs decreased, probably due to gravitational effects.
(14) Other possible causes are the tendency in Japanese medical society to attach greater importance to academic attainment than to clinical competence and the excessive gravitation of residents toward university hospitals.
(15) Only a small fraction appeared to gravitate toward full economic support, to discontinuation of methadone, and to an enduring narcotic-free state.
(16) Post-traumatic regeneration of the rat spleen was studied after resection of half the organ, under gravitation overloading (11 units) using spleen tissue extract prepared by Filatov's method.
(17) Physiologic magnetic fields on the order of magnitude 10(-8) gauss have been unified with their propitiators: quantum genetic particles, the gravitational potential of which is about a few ergs.
(18) Physiological measurements of the distribution of blood flow and ventilation are concentrating on non-gravitational influences such as the pattern of force generation by the respiratory muscles and vasomotor tone.
(19) These data support the hypothesis that olfactory function, like visual, auditory, and vestibular function, is significantly influenced by body position within a gravitational field.
(20) "So many people have it at home when they are young, they read the cartoons and gravitate to other, perhaps more serious areas as they get older," says Molnar.