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Definition of Levitating
1. levitate [v] - See also: levitate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Levitating
Literary usage of Levitating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects by John Frederick William Herschel (1871)
"... levitating matter, that positive and unrefutable demonstration of the existence
in nature of a repulsive force, co-extensive with but enormously more ..."
2. Experiments in Psychical Science, Levitation, Contact, and the Direct Voice by William Jackson Crawford (1920)
"... the table has to be held off the floor is very strong presumptive evidence
that space is required to get the levitating structure under the surface, ..."
3. The Technical World Magazine (1912)
"Between the two lower rails are "levitating coils." As the car passes, the force
in these levitating coils repulses the aluminum base of the vehicle, ..."
4. The Journal of Science, and Annals of Astronomy, Biology, Geology by James Samuelson, William Crookes (1882)
"For a mass of cork or a bladder of air, attached to a stone in water, would be
a ' levitating -factor ' to raise it to the surface. (3. ..."
5. The Journal of Science by Calcutta Asiatic Society (1882)
"For a mass of cork or a bladder of air, attached to a stone in water, would be
a ' levitating factor ' to raise it to the surface. (5. ..."
6. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1863)
"... the danger of some roguish defunct tradesman aiding the frauds of his successor
by ' gravitating ' the figs and raisins or ' levitating' the weights. ..."
7. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"Tibet was full of levitating chelas, as he believed; or of the little London
curate out for a holiday who had seen India and had faith in the progress of ..."
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