zero gravity

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zero gravity

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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.

noun zero-gravity

  1. uncountable 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.

    Similar: microgravity, weightlessness, zero g, zero-g, zero G, zero-G, zero gee, zero-gee

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noun state of weightlessness

Españolgravedad cero, ingravidez
日本語無重力 Mujūryoku
中文零重力 língzhònglì
Portuguêsgravidade zero
Françaisgravité zéro
DeutschSchwerelosigkeit
Italianoassenza di gravità
Ελληνικάμηδέν βαρύτητα midén varýtita
Русскийневесо́мость nevesómostʹ

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@misc{zero_gravity_2026,
  title = {zero gravity},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/zero%20gravity},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}