magnetic levitation

1. 1.

   high-speed rail technology; train is suspended on a magnetic cushion above a magnetized track and so travels free of friction

   Synonymsmaglev

   Broaderrail technology

Questions about magnetic levitation

What does magnetic levitation mean?

magnetic levitation means "high-speed rail technology; train is suspended on a magnetic cushion above a magnetized track and so travels free of friction".

What is another word for magnetic levitation?

Close synonyms include maglev. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is magnetic levitation a common word?

magnetic levitation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.