NOUN
- the ideal falling motion of something subject only to a gravitational field
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a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index
a dip in prices
when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall
there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery
How To Use free fall In A Sentence
- Air in free fall does not convect, which means that everything that heats up has to be cooled by fans; the space shuttle is LOUD inside. 8/4/08: Launch Pad, day 5
- Some experienced foreign jumpers displayed hand-in-hand group jumping, wingsuit jumping and somersaults during free fall; all the risky stunts thrilled the audience.
- Among lawful sequences of events are Galileo's laws of free fall and the parabolic trajectory of projectiles.
- Bulk alloy prices have halted their free fall and are showing some signs of recovery, although few people expect a major rally.
- The spacecraft is now in free fall towards the Earth.
- It is always possible, even in free fall, to obtain non-vanishing metric connections by choosing Gaussian rather than Cartesian coordinates.
- Over the next hours the spacecraft is in free fall toward the lunar surface, constantly accelerating in the lunar gravity.
- The spacecraft is now in free fall towards the Earth.
- And Given that NIST agrees: Free fall is impossible in abuilding crumpling or collapsingnaturallydue to structural resistance (Shyam Sunder, NIST); OpEdNews - Diary: 9/11: NIST Provides the Proof 9-11 was an Inside Job / False Flag Attack.
- Improvements in nutrition, hygiene and hospital care had kept the disease in almost steady decline throughout the first half of the century, and the free fall had continued since the advent of antitubercular drugs in the 1950s. Tuberculosis: A Deadly Return
