单词 | artificial gravity |
释义 | > as lemmasartificial gravity artificial gravity n. Science Fiction and Astronautics a simulation of gravity in a spacecraft, usually in a fictional or hypothetical context. ΚΠ 1927 A. H. Richards Let. in Amazing Stories Sept. 610/1 A Globe as small as that would not possess sufficient gravity to keep such minute beings on it. And if they endowed it with an artificial gravity..it would also flatten out the polar bosses and the equatorial bulge. 1973 A. C. Clarke Rendezvous with Rama (1974) 44 Others proposed hollow, spinning cylinders so that centrifugal force could provide artificial gravity. 1994 Prairie Fire Summer 221 Concepts such as ‘artificial gravity’ belong to the universe of Spock and Data, starships and holodecks, not to the allegedly objective realm of hard science. 2007 Acta Astronautica 58 92/2 Artificial gravity is provided by rotation of the M3 spacecraft. < as lemmas |
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