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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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