antigrav n.
= antigravity n.; (also) a device that negates the force of gravity
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1941 Artnan Process in Astounding Science-Fiction June 56/2
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Theodore Sturgeon
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The ship settled down gently, her antigrav plates moaning.
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1945 The Ether Vibrates in Startling Stories Summer 6/1
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Well, cut off my antigravs and call me flighty—it really is here.
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1954 Breathing Space in Vargo Statten Science Fiction Magazine Jan. 61/2
D. Richard Hughes
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‘There’s a ship gravving up from your colony, Angstol,’ said Tulketh absently, as he gazed dreamily at his own screen. ‘Well, I suppose they'll have developed some sort of chemical rockets by now if they’re—did you say GRAVVING up?’… There below them, the familiar gleaming silver shape of a planetary ship was slowly ascending, with its longitudinal axis horizontal in the time-honoured manner of pre-blasting precautions. ‘They have got antigravs’ screeched Largoth, frantically. ‘We must not be seen!’
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1958 Unwillingly to School in Astounding Science Fiction Jan. 38/2
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Pauline Ashwell
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[T]here is a knock at my bedroom window at maybe three hours. I am not properly awake and do not think to question how somebody can be there, seeing it is five hundred feet up the tower; I open the window and B falls inside. I am just about ready to conclude I must be dreaming when B unstraps a small antigrav pack, mountaineering type, and says Somebody offered her the beastly thing as a secondhand bargain, she has been trying it out and it doesn’t work.
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1974 Star Trek 10 83
James Blish
Quiet and undisconcerted, Spock went to the box, affixing anti-gravs to it.
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1993 Muddle Earth 161
John Brunner
How exactly did acrobats and tumblers using antigrav for extra bounce correspond to ‘the crowned heads of India and Indonesia (simulated)’?
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1995 First Frontier . xxxiv. 343
Organize all hands and have them pick up the scattered pieces of the platform and those antigravs over there and the tools down the slope.
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1996 Return v. 29
William Shatner
He felt the abrupt tug of the antigravs pulling on his equipment harness.
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2015 Lords of the Sith vii. 93
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Paul S. Kemp
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Other vessels, already crewed, lurched into the air on their antigravs.
Research requirements
antedating 1941
Earliest cite
Theodore Sturgeon,'The Artnan Process'
Research History
Mike Christie submitted a cite from 1945.Bill Seabrook located and Mike Christie confirmed a 1941 cite from Theodore Sturgeon's "Artnan Process".
Bee Ostrowsky submitted a 2015 cite from Paul S. Kemp.
Bee Ostrowsky submitted a 1958 cite from Pauline Ashwell.
Earliest cite in the OED: 1953.
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