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weightlessness
Variant of weightless
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 adverb
- weightlessness noun
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