Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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a. Not fixed in any way to a surface. Relying solely on the force of gravity to stay in place. alt. Not fixed in any way to a surface. Relying solely on the force of gravity to stay in place.
Usage examples of "free-standing".
It was more hotel than home: twenty guest suites and ten bedrooms - all with private baths, two dining halls, a grand ballroom, winter garden, countless salons, six staircases, a free-standing smokehouse and seven dumb waiters.
The three big gramophones were on separate tables carefully positioned around the bare wooden floor, along with the free-standing pier machine.
The city burst with colors, from the huge tapestries that adorned the sides of whole buildings, to the free-standing sculptures on each street corner, to the dazzling, floating light shows that seemed to appear and disappear in random locations-Carol commented that they looked like super-advanced lava lamps, then had to explain what a lava lamp was.
It led into a main chamber that was rather well lighted, although by a combination of fluorescent lights rigged up overhead and some quite nonelectrical, large, free-standing candles.
Empty but for a small free-standing partition off to the right, the room possessed few other features: more surveillance, sensor, and weapons ports.
There was a free-standing block of shops at a right angle to the warehouse frontage.
The building itself consisted of an encircling stone wall, guarding a number of small, free-standing block.
A stationary bicycle, rowing machine, and motorized treadmill sat on the rubber along with a free-standing rack of low-weight, chrome-plated dumbbells.
It was a grain storage locker, free-standing, with no possible connection to vacuum.