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# weightless

«weightless» in Mova's school dictionary: **having no weight, or seeming to have no weight** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

1) Weightless means having no weight, or seeming to have no weight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weightless/#m1)

2) In space, astronauts are weightless and float, because they are falling freely around the Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weightless/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons about forces and space, astronauts in the space station feel weightless: they still have mass, but they float because they and the station fall together around the Earth. In everyday talk, something «almost weightless» is very light, like a feather. Phrases: «feel weightless», «float weightless», «almost weightless».

### examples

- Astronauts float because they are weightless in orbit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weightless/#x1)
- The feather felt almost weightless in my hand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weightless/#x2)
- In space, a drop of water floats as a weightless ball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weightless/#x3)
- On the trampoline, I felt weightless for a moment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weightless/#x4)
- Weightless astronauts strap themselves into their sleeping bags. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weightless/#x5)
- She felt weightless in the swimming pool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weightless/#x6)

### note

Adjective; noun «weightlessness». Trap: there is still gravity in orbit; astronauts feel weightless because they are falling around the Earth, not because gravity is gone. Weight and mass are different: in space mass stays the same.

### Trees and pragmatics

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