Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "free-floating".
A tulip-wreath Twines round her shadowy, free-floating hair: Young, weary, passionate, and sad as death, Dark visions haunt for her the vacant air, While movelessly she lies With lithe, lax, folded hands and heavy eyes.
But with no harvester submersible within a thousand klicks, the beautiful beastie would be torn to shreds and devoured by the parasites in the flashlight kelp colonies, by salt sharks, by free-floating tube worms, and by other kraken long before a company harvester could get near it.
There were thin panels of self-supporting reflective material, several ornate laceworks of spun metallic glass whose functions dwelled in a land beyond elusive, and a number of free-floating geometric shapes that appeared to pulse steadily in and out of existence.
This information was stored on many levels, from the gross connectivity patterns of surface floating tendrils, down to free-floating strands of RNA.
Either free-floating small balloons, such as that one, or from regular barrage balloons of the type used to protect cities.
One of the assistants handed me a small black box with dials and buttons on it, as well as a transparent bulge that contained a free-floating needle.
She studied the free-floating star map to decide the best way to harry Phalanx shipping.
Sensors were blinded, but Jim's unnerved imagination told Mm well enough what any observer would see: the Enterprise blasting out of nowhere, blazing brighter than any comet, as free-floating atoms and the electrons of the shields themselves were so fiercely excited by the warp-nine dump that they shattered completely in a hail of photons and negatrons and other brems-strahlung radiation.
In zero gravity microorganisms tended to flourish, surviving on free-floating water droplets in the air.