microgravity
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From micro- + gravityCategory:English terms prefixed with micro-#GRAVITY.
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microgravity (usually uncountable, plural microgravities)Category:English lemmas#MICROGRAVITYCategory:English nouns#MICROGRAVITYCategory:English uncountable nouns#MICROGRAVITYCategory:English countable nouns#MICROGRAVITYCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MICROGRAVITYCategory:Pages with entries#MICROGRAVITYCategory:Pages with 1 entry#MICROGRAVITY
- (physicsCategory:en:Physics#MICROGRAVITY) 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.Category:English terms with quotations#MICROGRAVITY
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very low gravity
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