FreeFall

FreeFall

“1. The motion of an object under the influence of gravity alone, there being neither thrust nor appreciable drag acting on it; the state of being in motion under such conditions […]. Free fall in the strictest sense is experienced by a spacecraft in the absence of thrust from the engines, when any occupants experience weightlessness; this effect can be mimicked by an aeroplane flying in a vertical parabolic path. An object in orbit around a planet or star is in free fall. The term is also applied to the rapid, unrestrained descent of an object under gravity, esp. through the atmosphere, such as that of a ballistic missile in the unpowered phase of its flight, or the part of a parachute descent before the parachute opens”. Da cui anche il significato “figurato” di “2. fig. The state or fact of undergoing a rapid or uncontrolled decline (in price, numbers, success, etc.)”




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