Take a transverse offset . Its distance from the source changes only at second order, but the direction of the gravitational force changes at first order:
(1)
in its first-order vector expansion. Subtracting the reference acceleration gives
(2)
It compresses the transverse separation. Together with the radial result, this is point-mass tidal stretching and squeezing, with tensor eigenvalues .

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