0 an occasion when something or someone falls quickly under the influence of gravity
1 a fast fall from a great height under the influence of gravity (= the natural force that attracts things toward the earth) without any other force acting to reduce speed:
The parachutists are briefly in free fall before opening their parachutes.
2 a sudden, fast loss, for example in price, popularity, or value:
The government had to act to keep the dollar from going into free fall against other currencies.
3 a sudden failure or loss of value that you are unable to stop and which continues to get worse:
go into (a) free fall The stock market went into free fall, plummeting an additional 27%.
be in (a) free fall Profits are in free fall, with second-quarter earnings down 80% from last year.
This theoretical explanation brought him into conflict with an argument he had developed earlier in order to explain acceleration in free fall.
Consequently, panic would not have ensued and the free fall of the currency, with its costly sequel, could have been avoided.
It is obviously much more difficult to investigate dynamic phenomena like projection, free fall, impact, etc. than those of statics.
This could hardly be achieved by drying in a free fall.
Falling out of suburbia, in political terms, would require a displacement of the organs, a movement in a sense into free fall towards the desert.
At the time of the application in spring 1992 the economy was almost in free fall.
The influence of the horizontal acceleration of the foot is rather limited and since the robot is in free fall before impact, k3 = 0 is used.
Of the photographs measured for spike growth all indicated an acceleration of less than half the rate of free fall in the particular virtual gravity field applied.
