Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (3)
1.
the phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means;
2.
movement upward in virtue of lightness;
3.
the act of raising (a body) from the ground by presumably spiritualistic means;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Levitation \Lev`i*ta"tion\ (-t[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [L. levis light
in weight.]
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1. Lightness; buoyancy; act of making light. --Paley.
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2. The act or process of making buoyant.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
levitation
n 1: the phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by
apparently supernatural means
2: movement upward in virtue of lightness [ant: gravitation]
3: the act of raising (a body) from the ground by presumably
spiritualistic means