levitation
Americannoun
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the act or phenomenon of levitating.
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the raising or rising of a body in air by supernatural means.
Other Word Forms
- levitational adjective
- levitative adjective
- self-levitation noun
Etymology
Origin of levitation
Example Sentences
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This unique ability makes them extremely valuable for technologies such as efficient power transmission, energy storage, magnetic levitation systems, and quantum computers.
From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2025
Those that fall are lifted out of the way, as if by levitation, then lowered back into place after each frame.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2023
Some of the most exciting and promising clean tech — like magnetic levitation trains and other low-cost, high-speed transportation — could finally be viable for mass development with superconductor use.
From Salon • Aug. 10, 2023
The levitation, the scientists said, demonstrated the Meissner effect, which ensures zero magnetic field inside a superconductor.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2023
The outsiders, of course, thought that Remedios the Beauty had finally succumbed to her irrevocable fate of a queen bee and that her family was trying to save her honor with that tale of levitation.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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