Definition of Levitating

1. Verb. (present participle of levitate) ¹

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Definition of Levitating

1. levitate [v] - See also: levitate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Levitating

leviner
leviners
levins
levirate
levirate marriage
levirate marriages
levirates
leviratic
leviratical
leviration
levirostres
levis
levitate
levitated
levitates
levitating (current term)
levitation
levitational
levitations
levitator
levitators
levite
levites
levitic
levitical
levitically
levities
levity
leviviridae
levivirus

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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