FREEFALL

Free fall

In Newtonian physics, free fall is any motion of a body where its weight is the only force acting upon it. In the context of general relativity where gravitation is reduced to a space-time curvature, a body in free fall has no force acting on it and it moves along a geodesic. The present article concerns itself with free fall in the Newtonian domain.

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Freefall

Freefall is the code name of a fictional comic book character Roxanne "Roxy" Spaulding from Wildstorm Comics. She is a member of the superhero team Gen¹³.

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freefall

Noun

  1. The state of being in a motion affected by no acceleration (force) other than that provided by gravity.
  2. The state of falling with no interference from outside forces other than the air resistance (no open parachute, etc.)
  3. The state of worsening out of control.
    As civil war continues in Iraq, the U.S. president's approval ratings are in freefall.
  4. Of or related to freefall in any sense.

Verb

  1. To drop in a state of freefall.
    A base jumper attempts to freefall for as long as possible before triggering the parachute.


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free fall

Noun

  1. A variant form of freefall.


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