NOUN | phenomenon | levitation | the phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means |
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event | levitation | movement upward in virtue of lightness | |
act | levitation | the act of raising (a body) from the ground by presumably spiritualistic means |
Sounds | leh.vihtey'shahn | |
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Rhymes | Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn... |
Meaning | The phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means. | |
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Broader | phenomenon | Any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning |
Spanish | levitación | |
Catalan | levitació | |
Verbs | levitate | be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity |
levitate | cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity |
Meaning | movement upward in virtue of lightness. | |
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Broader | change of location, travel | A movement through space that changes the location of something |
Opposite | gravitation | movement downward resulting from gravitational attraction |
Spanish | levitación | |
Catalan | levitació |
Meaning | The act of raising (a body) from the ground by presumably spiritualistic means. | |
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Broader | rise, ascent, ascension, ascending | The act of changing location in an upward direction |
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