artificial gravity

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of artificial gravity¹

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

If artificial gravity couldn’t be provided to the mother-to-be, an alternative might be a human-sized centrifuge to spin the pregnant person around.

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The same physics underpin most plans for creating what is colloquially referred to as artificial gravity.

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“Do we bring Earth with us? Create artificial gravity? If we take Earth with us, are we going to stall evolution? Or do we let people start with an adaptive response, and maybe it’s hard for people multiple generations later to come back?”

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

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For all I know, that science may have MIT wonks hooting in derision, but when it offhandedly imagines a whole artificial gravity system, involving a module tethered to a dead rocket, spinning so fast that the Earth rises and sets a few times every minute, it sure passes the sniff test of the armchair astrophysicist with solar-flared colors.

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