a hypothetical force opposed to that of gravity
But the antigravity apparatus will have to be capable of generating a greater repulsive force than is required for ordinary interplanetary conditions.
Two facts I wanted: antigravity units of the cars do not disturb reception.
‘They have antigravity! Isn’t that it?’ ‘Yes…. Of course, it couldn’t be a complete gravity screen by any means. But it seems to be a good long step toward it.’
How do you get out of here?…Anti-gravity lift.
At first I thought you had some anti-gravity device—but even I know that’s impossible.
The idea of antigravity excited Dennis.
The Suzerain of Propriety tried to make allowance for such difference as the clucking swarm of fuzzy, rotund clients carried the antigravity perch from the site where the body had lain.
Lew talked instead during the flight about antigravity.
You think they had antigravity or something?
A class-B jamming field renders most of our tractor beams and antigravity lifters inoperative
It’s been two decades since Howard Chaykin’s Ironwolf appeared, the fallen Lord who fenced on far distant worlds and spanned the planets in his spaceship made of anti-gravity wood.
There were no signs of antigravity units on this ship, or even engines.
Great leaps forward in alternative fuels, antigravity and computer technology, solar power, metal fabrication—all these advances in man’s knowledge were leading to new products and improvements in old ones.
antedating 1932
J.M. Walsh
Earliest cite in the OED: 1945.
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