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weightless

[ weyt-lis ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

being without apparent weight, as a freely falling body or a body acted upon by a force that neutralizes gravitation.

weightless

/ ˈweɪtləs /

(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
1. (of economic activity) based on the supply of information and ideas rather than trade in physical goods
  the weightless economy
2. (of a company) having very few physical assets
  weightless dot.coms

First recorded in 1540–50; weight + -less

“Weightless 11 times, they said—I only counted four,” he says as we walk down the ramp.

The bullets spun him around as if he— a man so enormous he was nicknamed Taco Truck— were practically weightless.

All of this is fun, but it feels a bit weightless and transient.

They felt nearly weightless, for they were lifting again in a high arc.

Since the power had been cut off, the ship was in free fall, and the men were weightless.

Both of the men, laboring under more than eight hundred pounds of weight, were suddenly weightless.

Hurled from his position, he fell end over end across the weightless ship, but despite the blow, he was not hurt.

After a bruising few minutes, we went weightless, then the servos put us back on internal gravity, and the crew unstrapped.

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