weightless
[weyt-lis]
- being without apparent weight, as a freely falling body or a body acted upon by a force that neutralizes gravitation.
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Contemporary Examples
“Weightless 11 times, they said—I only counted four,” he says as we walk down the ramp.
The Stacks: The Inimitable Albert Brooks Caught at the Dawn of His Movie CareerPaul Slansky
April 13, 2014
Historical Examples
Since the power had been cut off, the ship was in free fall, and the men were weightless.
Islands of SpaceJohn W Campbell
They made their second, 180-degree turnover while weightless.
The Cosmic ComputerHenry Beam Piper
Mryna was thrown against the ceiling—and she hung there, weightless.
The GuardiansIrving Cox
But obviously, since he was weightless, he was not on Deneb IV.
A Place in the SunC.H. Thames
"Maybe they'd be weightless, but they still wouldn't go up," I said.
Double or NothingJack Sharkey
weightless
- (of a body) having no actual weight; a state in which an object has no actual weight (because it is in space and unaffected by gravitational attraction) or no apparent weight (because the gravitational attraction equals the centripetal force and the object is in free fall)
- commerce
- (of economic activity) based on the supply of information and ideas rather than trade in physical goodsthe weightless economy
- (of a company) having very few physical assetsweightless dot.coms
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