Search Result for "free fall":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the ideal falling motion of something subject only to a gravitational field;

2. a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity;
- Example: "a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index"
- Example: "there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery"
- Example: "a dip in prices"
- Example: "when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall"
[syn: drop, dip, fall, free fall]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

free fall
    n 1: the ideal falling motion of something subject only to a
         gravitational field
    2: a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity; "a drop of 57
       points on the Dow Jones index"; "there was a drop in pressure
       in the pulmonary artery"; "a dip in prices"; "when that
       became known the price of their stock went into free fall"
       [syn: drop, dip, fall, free fall]