microgravity

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Etymology

From micro- +‎ gravity.

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  • Rhymes: -ævɪti

Noun

microgravity (usually uncountable, plural microgravities)

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  1. (physics) A state of very low acceleration between two free floating objects, as found in sustained freefall, in orbit, or in interstellar space.
    • 2023, Samantha Harvey, Orbital, Jonathan Cape, page 25:
      In microgravity their arteries are thickening and stiffening and the muscle of the heart weakening and shrinking.

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