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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The fall of a body within the atmosphere without a drag-producing device such as a parachute.
  • noun The ideal falling motion of a body that is subject only to the earth's gravitational field.
  • noun Rapid uncontrolled decline.

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  • noun A variant form of freefall.

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  • noun the ideal falling motion of something subject only to a gravitational field
  • noun a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity

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