levitation

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• /ˌlɛvɪˈteɪʃən/
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• rhymes with -eɪʃən
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From levitate + -ion, from Latin levitas (“lightness”), patterned in English on gravitate.

30 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: левита́ция (levitácija) — raising of something without apparent physical cause
• Catalan: levitació — raising of something without apparent physical cause
• Czech: levitace — raising of something without apparent physical cause
• Danish: levitation — raising of something without apparent physical cause
• Dutch: levitatie — raising of something without apparent physical cause
• Esperanto: levitacio — raising of something without apparent physical cause
• Finnish: leijutus — raising of something without apparent physical cause
• Finnish: levitaatio — raising of something without apparent physical cause
• German: Levitation — raising of something without apparent physical cause
• Hindi: प्रोत्थापन (protthāpan) — raising of something without apparent physical cause
• Hungarian: lebegés — raising of something without apparent physical cause
• Hungarian: felemelkedés — raising of something without apparent physical cause
• Hungarian: levitáció — raising of something without apparent physical cause
• Latin: levatio — raising of something without apparent physical cause
• Polish: lewitacja — raising of something without apparent physical cause
• Portuguese: levitação — raising of something without apparent physical cause
• Romanian: levitație — raising of something without apparent physical cause
• Russian: левита́ция (levitácija) — raising of something without apparent physical cause
• Slovak: levitácia — raising of something without apparent physical cause
• Swedish: levitation — raising of something without apparent physical cause
• Catalan: levitació — technical suspension without mechanical support
• Czech: vznášení se — technical suspension without mechanical support
• Czech: vznášení — technical suspension without mechanical support
• Finnish: leijutus — technical suspension without mechanical support
• Finnish: levitaatio — technical suspension without mechanical support
• German: Schweben — technical suspension without mechanical support
• Polish: lewitacja — technical suspension without mechanical support
• Portuguese: levitação — technical suspension without mechanical support
• Russian: левита́ция (levitácija) — technical suspension without mechanical support
• Slovak: vznášanie — technical suspension without mechanical support