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weightless
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Weightless \Weight"less\, a.
Having no weight; imponderable; hence, light.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"having no weight," 1540s, from weight (n.) + -less. Related: Weightlessly; weightlessness (1867).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Which has no weight. 2 Which is not being affected by gravity.
WordNet
adj. having little or no weight or apparent gravitational pull; light; "floating freely in a weightless condition"; "a baby bat...fluffy and weightless as a moth"; "jackets made of a weightless polyester fabric" [ant: weighty]
Wikipedia
Weightless is the debut album by rap group The Skinny Boys. It was released in 1986 for Warlock Records and was produced by Mark Bush and Chuck Chillout. The lead track, "Jockbox," is used as the opening theme for the Comedy Central series Workaholics.
"Weightless" is a pop song by Scottish group Wet Wet Wet. It is the second single lifted from their comeback album, Timeless. Released on 4 February 2008, it reached #10 on the UK singles chart, becoming their first single to chart inside the UK Top 10 since 1997. However, the following week it fell to #96, making it the first-ever Top Ten hit to spend just one week in the UK Top 75.
"Weightless" is a song by American pop punk band All Time Low and the first and lead single from the group's third studio album Nothing Personal (2009). The single was released through Hopeless Records as a digital download on April 7, 2009, and was released in the UK on August 3, 2009. The song is also available to download on the music video games Rock Band and Guitar Hero 5. It became the first song by the band to receive radio airplay, exposing the band to a new audience, and helping it peak at No. 104 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song has become a live staple, and is considered to be one of the band's signature songs along with " Dear Maria, Count Me In". In 2014 the song was certified Gold by the RIAA.
Weightless is the second album by instrumental progressive metal group Animals as Leaders. It was released on November 4, 2011 in Europe, November 7, 2011 in the UK, and November 8, 2011 in the US by Prosthetic Records. The album charted at #92 on Billboard’s Top 200 Chart, as well as #7 on Billboard’s Top Hard Music Chart, #16 on their Top Independent Album Chart and #50 on the Top Current Digital Album Chart.
Unlike the previous Animals as Leaders album, Weightless features a trio line-up instead of just consisting of Tosin Abasi along with featuring real drums in addition to programmed drums. Both guitarists in the group (Abasi and Javier Reyes) play 8-stringed guitars on this release.
The track titles of the album are chapter titles from the Rama series written by Arthur C. Clarke.
Weightless may refer to:
- Weightlessness, the condition that exists for an object or person when they experience little or no acceleration
- Weightless (wireless communications), proposed proprietary open wireless technology standard
- Weightless (film), an upcoming Terrence Malick film
- Weightless (novel), a 2015 novel by Sarah Bannan
Weightless is an upcoming American drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick, starring an ensemble cast including Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett, Val Kilmer, Clifton Collins Jr., Benicio del Toro, and Michael Fassbender.
The film is scheduled to be released on March 17, 2017, by Broad Green Pictures.
Weightless is the second studio album by the American singer-songwriter Katie Herzig, which was released in 2006.
Weightless, released in Germany as Die Neue (The New), is a 2015 young adult novel and the debut work of the American author Sarah Bannan. It was first published in the United Kingdom through Bloomsbury Circus on 12 March 2015, followed by a United States release on 30 June through St. Martin's Griffin. The work deals with the themes of cyberbullying and peer pressure and is told from the viewpoint of several anonymous narrators as they reflect upon the appearance of a new student that stirs up differing emotions from various people.
Weightless is the name of a set of LPWAN open wireless technology standards for exchanging data between a base station and thousands of machines around it. These technologies allow developers to build Low-Power Wide-Area Networks ( LPWAN).
There are currently two published Weightless connectivity standards, Weightless-N and Weightless-W. Weightless-N uses ultra narrow band technology operating in licence exempt sub 1GHz spectrum in what is commonly known as the Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) bands. In Europe this includes a range of frequencies around 868MHz; in North America around 915MHz.
Weightless is managed by the Weightless SIG, or Special Interest Group, which was revealed to the public on 7 December 2012. An inaugural event for industry was held at the Moller Centre in Cambridge, UK by Cambridge Wireless on Friday, 30 September 2011. Representatives – mainly engineers – from many companies from around the world attended. Presentations were given by Neul, Landis+Gyr, Cable & Wireless, and ARM.
The intention is that devices must be qualified by the Weightless Special Interest Group to standards defined by the SIG. Patents would only be licensed to those qualifying devices; thus the protocol, whilst open, may be regarded as proprietary.
Usage examples of "weightless".
She could be looking down on Nevada from a weightless home out of the well, living there in exemplary alloy immunity with Daud, the both of them cleansed of the mud that had clung to them all their lives.
Then he hefted her struggling form up the air as though she were nothing more than a weightless doll.
She had never felt this way before, as if she were wrapped in a weightless cocoon that pulled at her anxieties, leaching them away.
Anyhow, thanks to our utterly weightless condition, we may achieve Lume 0.
He drifted, weightless, floating above the blue and white marbleized planet, then through the low cloud layer.
In this weightless transition through worlds, free from narcosis and the storm of dangers at depth, the diver may finally allow himself to become a sightseer on his own adventure.
In his surprise Rambo fired before he knew it, Teasle crying out, careening backward down the lawn in an arc that landed him on the sidewalk, but Rambo could not puzzle out what was happening to himself, the way he was jerking back weightless, whipping to one side, striking face down in the grass.
Hanging weightless in a white-glowing tunnel, trying to read a watch through the heaviest solar filter made for space helmets, holding one end of a line whose other end was keeping a man and a fantastically valuable camera from drifting away and becoming part of the solar corona, all the while trying to organize a number of large plastic sacks of pulverized frozen water, ammonia, and methane which persistently gathered around him would have driven a more self-controlled man than Ries to bad language.
I closed my eyes and felt the sculler slip between the stone piers and plunge, weightless, into five feet of roaring darkness and a sudden rush of spray and air.
The tachi, by contrast, was so relatively weightless that it felt less like a weapon than it did a long, sharp extension of my own arm.
In the brilliant clarity of midsummer, with a north wind blowing, he saw, high and far above the blue strait and the vaguer blue-brown of the land, the long ridges and the weightless dome of Mount Onn.
Lacking any gravity save that made by its own inner air, Virga was a weightless environment whose extent could easily seem infinite to those who lived within it.
Out of each discarded human husk a vug emerged, and the husks teetered and one by one, as if blown by an impalpable wind, writhed and then danced away, weightless, already without color.
Then, before they were out of the region of perpetual fog around Misu Mound, and just where the current drags in very near the left bank, Witchy was onto the craft as weightless as a ghost.
Mors Planch in neutral territory, far from the hold but aft of the crew quarters, in a weightless service hallway.