Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the quality or character of ablation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Diminishing.
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- adjective
Diminishing ; as, an ablatitious force - Sir J. Herschel
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Examples
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If we only consider the mean or average effect in orbits nearly circular, this force may be considered as an ablatitious force at all distances below the mean, counterbalanced by an opposite effect at all distances above the mean.
Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence T. Bassnett
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This fraction is, however, too small, as the ablatitious action of the sun diminishes the attraction of the earth on the moon, in the ratio of
Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence T. Bassnett
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In other positions it is, therefore, as the cosines of the eccentric anomaly, as in the former case; but in this last case it is an addititious force at the perihelion, and an ablatitious force at the aphelion, whereas the first disturbing force was an ablatitious force at the perihelion, and an addititious force at the aphelion; therefore, as we must suppose the planet to be in equilibrium at its mean distance, it is in equilibrium at all distances.
Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence T. Bassnett
biocon commented on the word ablatitious
Ablatitious = "(t)hat is to be subtracted; subtractive. Chiefly Astron.: designating forces which must be subtracted in calculating the gravitational pull of the moon on the earth, the earth on the oceans, etc." (Oxford English Dictionary).
August 31, 2011