weightless
being without apparent weight, as a freely falling body or a body acted upon by a force that neutralizes gravitation.
Origin of weightless
1Other words from weightless
- weight·less·ly, adverb
- weight·less·ness, noun
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How to use weightless in a sentence
I wasn’t going that far, but I wasn’t going to send a couple of emails until we were safely weightless.
My satellite would fit in a small suitcase. | Katie McLean | December 18, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewIn a sense, they’re weightless because the car is the battery.
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 7) | Singularity Hub Staff | November 7, 2020 | Singularity HubThe weightless, oil-free moisture absorbs into the skin fast to lock in hydration without a greasy feel and it should offer some relief to redness.
Gift Guide: The best beauty and wellness presents of 2020 | Rachel King | November 1, 2020 | FortuneEven more astonishing are the pictures of him floating in the NASA aircraft that allows passengers to experience weightlessness.
It was a singularly uncomfortable sensation, on top of the discomfort of weightlessness.
Operation: Outer Space | William Fitzgerald Jenkins
His head sagged, and had it not been for the weightlessness he would have fallen forward onto the drone control.
The Scarlet Lake Mystery | Harold Leland GoodwinThere was an instant of weightlessness, and then their weight reversed as the A-G drive strove to slow down the ship.
The Secret of the Ninth Planet | Donald Allen WollheimYou'd think the passengers would enjoy a little weightlessness occasionally—especially the fat ones—but they don't.
Spacehounds of IPC | Edward Elmer SmithThat's one advantage of weightlessness—you can lie down standing on your head, and go to sleep and like it.
Spacehounds of IPC | Edward Elmer Smith
British Dictionary definitions for 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
(of economic activity) based on the supply of information and ideas rather than trade in physical goods: the weightless economy
(of a company) having very few physical assets: weightless dot.coms
Derived forms of weightless
- weightlessness, noun
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