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FREE FALL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
Example:
when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("free fall" is a kind of...):
decrease; decrement (the amount by which something decreases)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "free fall"):
correction (a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases)
voltage drop (a decrease in voltage along a conductor through which current is flowing)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The ideal falling motion of something subject only to a gravitational field
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("free fall" is a kind of...):
drop; fall (a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity)
