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Multipole expansions play a role in Newtonian gravity. You take the gravitational potential for a mass distribution from the reference frame where the origin is the center of mass of the object, and expand it into a monopole, dipole, quadrupole, etc.. This expansion shows that the elongation of a body causes a lower potential in the direction of elongation and a higher potential perpendicular to the direction of elongation.
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