Levitation

//ˌlɛvɪˈteɪʃən//

"Levitation" in a Sentence (6 examples)

Superconducting magnets can be used for the levitation of high-speed trains.

The alien uses levitation and telekinesis.

They say that many Buddhist monks have exceptional abilities like levitation, abandoning the body and later returning to it at will.

The Electrostatic Levitation Furnace in the Japanese Kibo laboratory module heats samples to ultra-high temperatures to observe thermophysical properties difficult to measure in Earth’s gravity.

It was erected by the application of those universal laws and forces of nature which cause iron to float. By the same laws, gravity may be overcome or neutralized, and stone made to float in air. The Pyramid was thus built by levitation, abetted by song and chanting, much in the same manner in which the Druids of England set up their huge stones at a later period.

We then had to endure a four-hour-long change of bogies at Brest - from the Soviet 1520mm-wide gauge to the 1435mm Polish and West European - when our carriage, with passengers inside, was lifted off the track by giant railway jacks, giving us a brief and not entirely unpleasant feeling of levitation.

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