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# maglev

«maglev» in Mova's school dictionary: **a train that floats just above its track using powerful…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a maglev, maglevs; maglev train)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A maglev is a train that floats just above its track using powerful magnets, so it does not touch the rails. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maglev/#m1)

2) It is short for «magnetic levitation». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maglev/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Met in science lessons on magnets (like poles push apart) and in technology about fast transport; maglevs run in China and Japan.

### examples

- A maglev train floats above the track. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maglev/#x1)
- Maglevs can go faster than 400 kilometres an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maglev/#x2)
- Shanghai has a maglev line to the airport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maglev/#x3)
- Magnets push the maglev forward. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maglev/#x4)
- Because it doesn't touch the rails, a maglev is quiet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maglev/#x5)
- We built a model maglev with fridge magnets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maglev/#x6)

### note

Short for «magnetic levitation»; one word, lower case. Plural: maglevs. The train does not float by magic; it uses magnets that repel each other.

### Trees and pragmatics

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