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A condition in which apparent weight is extremely small, often because an object and its surroundings are in continuous free fall.
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- microgravity environment
- microgravity experiment
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In microgravity, the loose drops gathered into floating beads.
In microgravity, she pushed gently from the wall and drifted across the cabin.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Uncountable condition noun; no ordinary plural. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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