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levitation

[lev-i-tey-shuhn] / ˌlɛv ɪˈteɪ ʃən /


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The thrusters were mounted on opposite sides of a CubeSat positioned on a custom magnetic levitation test platform known as the MagLev.

From Science Daily Jun. 10, 2026

Those that fall are lifted out of the way, as if by levitation, then lowered back into place after each frame.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 21, 2023

Some of the most exciting and promising clean tech — like magnetic levitation trains and other low-cost, high-speed transportation — could finally be viable for mass development with superconductor use.

From Salon Aug. 10, 2023

The levitation, the scientists said, demonstrated the Meissner effect, which ensures zero magnetic field inside a superconductor.

From New York Times Aug. 3, 2023

The outsiders, of course, thought that Remedios the Beauty had finally succumbed to her irrevocable fate of a queen bee and that her family was trying to save her honor with that tale of levitation.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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