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How to pronounce levitation in English?

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Type Words
Type of change of location, travel
Type Words
Type of ascent, ascending, rise, ascension
Type Words
Type of phenomenon
Derivation levitate

Examples of levitation

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It isn't exactly magnetic levitation, but George Jetson would certainly approve.
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Yesterday, I showed you a video of an amazing incidence of magnetic levitation.
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It is also considerably more difficult to perform than the Balducci levitation.
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Now I'm back with all new stuff, like the levitation in the middle of the audience.
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It's not nice that after trying for so long he is failing even at levitation.
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Among the most important and significant of the occurrences we put this levitation.
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The Meissner effect can be used to demonstrate superconducting magnetic levitation.
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To Democrats, and some Republicans, McCain's current act of levitation is ephemeral.
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Pantech hopes to stand out with their newest phone that employs magnetic levitation.
From the techcrunch.com
More examples
  • The phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means
  • Movement upward in virtue of lightness
  • The act of raising (a body) from the ground by presumably spiritualistic means
  • (levitate) cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity; "The magician levitated the woman"
  • Levitation (from Latin levitas "lightness") is the process by which an object is suspended by a physical force against gravity, in a stable position without solid physical contact. ...
  • Levitation is a 1980 studio album by English rock group Hawkwind. It peaked at #21 on the UK Albums Chart.
  • Levitation were an English rock band fronted by ex-House of Love guitarist Terry Bickers. Levitation's music and attitude challenged an early 1990s UK alternative music scene dominated by shoegazing and Madchester.
  • Levitation is Scott D. Goldstein film. The motion picture starred the Golden Globe-nominated American actress Sarah Paulson, Ernie Hudson and Benjamin Heflin.
  • Levitation is a name given to the claimed paranormal phenomenon of levitation occurring without any scientific explanation, such as electromagnetism or air pressure.