freefall

freefall
free fall or free-fall (frēʹfôlʹ) n.
1. The fall of a body within the atmosphere without a drag-producing device such as a parachute.
2. The ideal falling motion of a body that is subject only to the earth's gravitational field.
3. Rapid uncontrolled decline: “The markets threatened to go into free fall and we came within an eyelash of... an uncontrollable panic” (Felix Rohatyn).
  freeʹ-fall' (frēʹfôl') v.

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