ultralight
Americanadjective
noun
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something that is ultralight.
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a small, light, inexpensive single-seat airplane that is essentially a motorized hang glider.
Etymology
Origin of ultralight
Example Sentences
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That made it especially useful for searching for signals associated with the ultralight particles the team wanted to investigate.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
The Kenyan was wearing a pair of revolutionary ultralight shoes that pushed Adidas ahead of Nike in another race — that of outfitting feet for record feats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2026
Pivotal’s eVTOL is the first ultralight electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft to reach the consumer market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
Those include “fuzzy” or “warm” dark matter, composed of hypothetical, ultralight particles called axions, and even a whole “dark sector” of invisible particles and forces that would create galaxies with a different footprint.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
Only the unique combination of the two of them could have produced the silk sleigh: a sleek, ultralight craft buoyed by ulola gas.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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