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weight·less (wāt′lis)
adjective
having little or no apparent weight; specif.,
- falling freely through a gravitational field, without apparent gravitational effects, as everything does inside an orbital spacecraft
- of or having zero gravity
- existing in a state of equilibrium within a fluid
Related Forms:
- weightlessly weight′·lessly adverb
- weightlessness weight′·less·ness noun
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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