Definitions
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- noun uncountable The state of being free from the
effects ofgravity . - noun countable An experience or instance of being weightless.
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- noun the property of being comparatively small in weight
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Examples
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Which reminds me of that story, or joke, about how the Americans spent oodles of cash to develop a pen that writes in weightlessness and how the practical Russians simply used a pencil.
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Drinking vodka in weightlessness already has a big resonance in Ukrainian media.
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Drinking vodka in weightlessness already has a big resonance in Ukrainian media.
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Kara was used to being small, nearest to the ground, to having taller kids look down on her, but these women in weightlessness, seemed to surround her, feet below hers, head above, shoulders off to her side.
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The transition to weightlessness is abrupt, and all the more dramatic because it occurs at the end of the 3 G acceleration: when the main engines cut off, the crew gets the impression of going over an edge and suddenly dropping into a free fall.
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The transition to weightlessness is abrupt, and all the more dramatic because it occurs at the end of the 3 G acceleration: when the main engines cut off, the crew gets the impression of going over an edge and suddenly dropping into a free fall.
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The dominant sensation, other than weightlessness, is of the speed across the ground.
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The dominant sensation, other than weightlessness, is of the speed across the ground.
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In father and son alike poor speech betrays a certain weightlessness of character, reflects lives so gilded that neither man ever had to worry about how he came across.
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In father and son alike poor speech betrays a certain weightlessness of character, reflects lives so gilded that neither man ever had to worry about how he came across.
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