zero gravity

noun

Etymology

Coined by Austro-Hungarian-American artist Jack Binder in his 1938 picture feature "If Science Reached the Earth's Core", printed in the October 1938 issue of the science-fiction pulp-magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories as part of a series of similar "If—" articles.

Definitions

  1. The state of apparent weightlessness which occurs in a very low gravity field, or in free…

    The state of apparent weightlessness which occurs in a very low gravity field, or in free fall.

    • Starting at the zero-gravity of earth's core, accumulative acceleration is easily built up in a four-thousand-mile tube.
    • A gravity-free world, or zero gravity, or weightlessness is ... a relative thing.
    • The tricky part is dressing while floating in zero gravity!

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for zero gravity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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