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# levitation

«levitation» in Mova's school dictionary: **rising or floating in the air without anything visible…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (levitation — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

Levitation is rising or floating in the air without anything visible holding it up, as if by magic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/levitation/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, fantasy and magic shows, wizards and magicians make people or objects levitate; magicians use hidden tricks and illusions. In science, real levitation can be done with magnets (maglev trains float above the track) or with air or sound pushing up; it always has a force behind it. In lessons about tricks and illusions, pupils learn that magic levitation is a trick, not real magic. Phrases: magnetic levitation, a levitation trick.

### examples

- The magician's levitation trick amazed the audience. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/levitation/#x1)
- Maglev trains use magnetic levitation to float above the track. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/levitation/#x2)
- In the story, the wizard used levitation to lift the rock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/levitation/#x3)
- The levitation was an illusion with a hidden support. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/levitation/#x4)
- We made a paper clip float using a magnet, a kind of levitation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/levitation/#x5)
- Real levitation always needs a force like magnetism or air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/levitation/#x6)

### note

Uncountable. Verb: levitate. Trap: no person can truly float by magic or by thinking hard; stage levitation is a trick. In science, gravity pulls everything down, so levitation needs an upward force to balance it.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «levitation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/levitation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.