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gravitoelectric field
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gravitoelectric field [¦grav·ə·tō·i¦lek·trik ′fēld]
(relativity)
In general relativity, those components of the gravitational field that are analogous to the electric-field components of the electromagnetic field and normally provide the dominant contribution.


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Gravitomagnetism is a relativistic addition to the ordinary Newtonian version of gravity, which doesn't take the motions of bodies into account.
 
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