free fall

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free fall

The stock price went into free fall after the news.

Definition
  1. Noun:
    • A state of rapid and uncontrolled decline: A sudden, sharp, and continuous decrease in value, amount, or quality, often used in economic or figurative contexts.
    • The motion of an object moving under the influence of gravity alone: In physics, the ideal motion of a body where the only force acting upon it is gravity, with no other forces (like air resistance) affecting its fall.
Usage Examples
  • Noun (Economic/Figurative Decline):
    • The company's stock went into free fall after the scandal was announced.
    • The country's currency is in free fall, losing value by the hour.
  • Noun (Physics):
    • Skydivers experience free fall before they open their parachutes.
    • In a vacuum, a feather and a hammer would be in free fall and hit the ground simultaneously.
Advanced Usage
  • "to be in free fall": To be in a state of rapid, uncontrolled decline.
    • Morale in the office was in free fall after the layoffs were announced.
  • "to go into free fall": To begin a state of rapid, uncontrolled decline.
    • Sales went into free fall following the negative product reviews.
Variants and Related Words
  • Free-fall (verb, often hyphenated): To drop or decline rapidly and uncontrollably.
    • The market free-fell for three consecutive days.
  • Freefalling (adjective/participle): Describing something that is in a state of free fall.
    • The freefalling prices are causing panic among investors.
Synonyms
  • Plummet: To fall or drop straight down at high speed.
  • Nosedive: A sudden steep dive or drop; a rapid decline.
  • Collapse: A sudden failure or breakdown.
  • Descent: The act of moving downward.
Related Phrases
  • Economic free fall: A period of rapid economic decline.
    • The 2008 crisis triggered an economic free fall in many countries.
  • Controlled free fall: In skydiving, a stable, belly-to-earth position during the fall before parachute deployment.
Related Idioms
  • "Going down in flames": Failing completely and spectacularly. (This is a figurative idiom with a similar sense of catastrophic decline as "free fall," but is more extreme and final.)
    • The project went down in flames after the lead developer quit.
free fall

The stock price went into free fall after the news.

Noun
  1. a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
    • a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index
    • there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery
    • a dip in prices
    • when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall
  2. the ideal falling motion of something subject only to a gravitational field

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