artificial gravity

noun

a simulated gravity or sensation of weight established within a spacecraft by means of the craft's rotation, acceleration, or deceleration.

First recorded in 1955–60

Settlers have burrowed into dwarf planet Ceres and spun it up to provide artificial gravity for a sizable colony.

Current plans show that it would hold 280 guests and 112 crew members, with its spinning-wheel design providing artificial gravity.

It’s that in those fictional worlds, artificial gravity exists.

Such LBNP devices “are an early form of artificial gravity,” Hargens says.

A sickening giddiness came over the two Earthians, for there were no devices to produce artificial gravity here.

Mr. Wordsley's eyes protruded from that unbearable weight, and he wished that there was no such thing as artificial gravity.

The artificial gravity induced a sense of security as absolute as though the ship were resting on living rock.

Actually, its sole function is to provide an artificial gravity inside the ship, for passenger comfort.

He knew dazedly that an artificial gravity field of this magnitude was impossible, but that knowledge didn't help him move.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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