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Gravity vs Gravityless - What's the difference?

gravity | gravityless |

As a noun gravity

is resultant force on earth's surface, of the attraction by the earth's masses, and the centrifugal pseudo-force caused by the earth's rotation.

As an adjective gravityless is

without gravity (the physical force).

gravity

Noun

  • Resultant force on Earth's surface, of the attraction by the Earth's masses, and the centrifugal pseudo-force caused by the Earth's rotation.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
  • Gravitation, universal force exercised by two bodies onto each other
    (In casual discussion, gravity and gravitation are often used interchangeably).
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01, author=Michael Riordan, volume=100, issue=1, page=86
  • , magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Tackling Infinity , passage=Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity , have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.}}
  • The state or condition of having weight; weight; heaviness.
  • Specific gravity.
  • The state or condition of being grave (graveness).
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    gravityless

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    Adjective

    (-)
  • Without gravity (the physical force).
  • * 1979 , Armand Mattelart, Michael Chanan, Multinational corporations and the control of culture
  • When the third Skylab space laboratory mission returned from a three month gravityless voyage in February 1974...
  • * 1986 , Andhra University, Journal of Indian psychology?
  • ...the consequences if the earth were to become gravityless (a hypothetical question often used to stimulate thinking)...