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Grammar : Noun
Spell : lev-i-tey-shuh n
Phonetic Transcription : ˌlɛv ɪˈteɪ ʃən



Definition of levitation

Origin :
  • 1660s, noun of action from Latin levitas (see levitate) + -ion.
  • As in elevation : noun height; high ground
Example sentences :
  • From Icarus on down, levitation or its equivalent has been a favorite.
  • Extract from : « Disowned » by Victor Endersby
  • He is the one animal that has levitation, as will be shown later.
  • Extract from : « How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions » by S. S. Curry
  • Yes, gentlemen, here's your death explained, and without any levitation.
  • Extract from : « The Innocence of Father Brown » by G. K. Chesterton
  • Levitation and ghostly disappearing hands were on every side.
  • Extract from : « The Silent Bullet » by Arthur B. Reeve
  • Other phenomena occurred, but the chief incident was the levitation.
  • Extract from : « Buchanan's Journal of Man, August 1887 » by Various
  • Levitation is really too simple a matter to occupy more of our time.
  • Extract from : « The Intoxicated Ghost » by Arlo Bates
  • When the levitation took place no hand was touching the table.
  • Extract from : « Metapsychical Phenomena » by J. Maxwell
  • My favourite dream has always had to do with an act of levitation.
  • Extract from : « The Spell of Switzerland » by Nathan Haskell Dole
  • During the second levitation the table was photographed underneath.
  • Extract from : « Mysterious Psychic Forces » by Camille Flammarion
  • Our first care was to renew the experiment of the levitation of an inert weight.
  • Extract from : « Mysterious Psychic Forces » by Camille Flammarion

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