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free-fall

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–verb (used without object)

1.	(of parachutists) to descend initially, as for a designated interval, in a free fall: The jumpers were required to free-fall for eight seconds.

–adjective

2.	denoting or suggesting a free fall: a free-fall recession.

–noun

3.	free fall (defs. 1, 2).

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free fall or free-fall (frē'fôl')
n.

The fall of a body within the atmosphere without a drag-producing device such as a parachute.
The ideal falling motion of a body that is subject only to the earth's gravitational field.
Rapid uncontrolled decline: "The markets threatened to go into free fall and we came within an eyelash of ... an uncontrollable panic" (Felix Rohatyn).

free'-fall' (frē'fôl') v.

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Free Soil, MI (village, FIPS 30600) Location: 44.10770 N, 86.21379 W
Population (1990): 148 (80 housing units)
Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 49411

Fall Branch, TN (CDP, FIPS 25540) Location: 36.41724 N, 82.62336 W
Population (1990): 1203 (509 housing units)
Area: 12.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 37656

Fall City, WA (CDP, FIPS 23200) Location: 47.56630 N, 121.90214 W
Population (1990): 1582 (610 housing units)
Area: 3.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 98024

Fall Creek, OR Zip code(s): 97438

Fall Creek, WI (village, FIPS 25125) Location: 44.76210 N, 91.27401 W
Population (1990): 1034 (415 housing units)
Area: 3.8 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 54742

Fall River, WI (village, FIPS 25150) Location: 43.38515 N, 89.04773 W
Population (1990): 842 (341 housing units)
Area: 3.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 53932

Fall River, KS (city, FIPS 22775) Location: 37.60841 N, 96.02848 W
Population (1990): 113 (87 housing units)
Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 67047

Fall River, MA (city, FIPS 23000) Location: 41.71460 N, 71.10507 W
Population (1990): 92703 (40375 housing units)
Area: 80.3 sq km (land), 18.7 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 02720, 02721, 02723, 02724

Fall River Mills, CA Zip code(s): 96028

Fall River County, SD (county, FIPS 47) Location: 43.24548 N, 103.51636 W
Population (1990): 7353 (3692 housing units)
Area: 4506.4 sq km (land), 24.1 sq km (water)

Mc Fall, MO Zip code(s): 64657

South Glens Fall, NY Zip code(s): 12803

Saint Regis Fall, NY Zip code(s): 12980

Saint Croix Fall, WI Zip code(s): 54024

Black River Fall, WI Zip code(s): 54615

Thief River Fall, MN Zip code(s): 56701

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