weightless
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weightless (ˈweɪtləs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | (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) |
| 2. | commerce |
| a. (of economic activity) based on the supply of information and ideas rather than trade in physical goods: the weightless economy | |
| b. (of a company) having very few physical assets: weightless dot.coms | |
| 'weightlessness | |
| —n | |
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| weightlessness (ˈweɪtlɪsnɪs) | |
| —n | |
| 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) | |
| 'weightless | |
| —adj | |
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Example sentences
Weightless, sinuous as a dolphin, you move through halls of light.
Then the slope turned vertical beneath him and he went weightless as he began to drop straight down the face.
And they don't laugh anymore because nothing is funny to them ever again after being weightless in space.
It wishes to mobilize nostalgia in order to give glamour and energy to a dismal, weightless campaign.
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