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UK
/wˈeɪtləsnəs/
]
[ US /ˈweɪtɫəsnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈweɪtɫəsnəs/ ]
NOUN
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the property of being comparatively small in weight
the lightness of balsa wood
How To Use weightlessness In A Sentence
- This was my first spaceflight, and my first experience of weightlessness. METAPLANETARY
- Weightlessness or simulated weightlessness has been shown to cause atrophy, reduced functional capacity, and increased fatigue in rat hind limb skeletal muscles.
- Using cables to pull the subject downward, the same impact load, bone stress and muscular loading will be reproduced in weightlessness as if they were running or walking on Earth.
- Suspended within multiple layers of the building structure, the effect of this gauzy translucence is to elevate space into an experience of lightness and weightlessness.
- The Xero Experience begins with specialized cosmonaut training from Soyuz bound radioactive space monkeys, then heads aloft for 90 blissful minutes of weightlessness.
- I merely floated where I was because of the weightlessness of space.
- Since then a number of biosatellites have been flown into orbit, testing weightlessness in different types of plants and animals.
- The astronauts are conducting a series of experiments to learn more about how the body adapts to weightlessness.
- Within capitalist societies, infinite expansibility and weightlessness lead to economic concentration.
- The use of one uncut steadicam sequence gives the film a sense of weightlessness.