microgravity
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editmicrogravity (usually uncountable, plural microgravities)
- (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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editvery low gravity
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