Full record for antigrav n.
| Definition | short form of anti-gravity |
| OED requirements | antedating 1941 |
| Earliest cite | Theodore Sturgeon,'The Artnan Process' |
| Comment | Mike Christie submitted a cite from 1945. Bill Seabrook located and Mike Christie confirmed a 1941 cite from Theodore Sturgeon's "Artnan Process". Earliest cite in the OED: 1953. |
| Last modified | 31 July, 2019 |
Citations for antigrav n.
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| 1941 Astounding Sci. Fiction June 56/2 | The ship settled down gently, her antigrav plates moaning. |
| 1945 Startling Stories Summer 6/1 | Well, cut off my antigravs and call me flightyit really is here. |
| 1954 D. R. Hughes Breathing Space in Vargo Statten Sci. Fiction Mag. Jan. 61/2 | There's a ship gravving up from your colony, Angstol, said Tulketh absently, as he gazed dreamily at his own screen. Well, I suppose they'll have developed some sort of chemical rockets by now if they're--did you say GRAVVING up?? There below them, the familiar gleaming silver shape of a planetary ship was slowly ascending, with its longitudinal axis horizontal in the time-honoured manner of pre-blasting precautions. They have got antigravs screeched Largoth, frantically. We must not be seen ! |
| 1974 J. Blish Star Trek 10 83 | Quiet and undisconcerted, Spock went to the box, affixing anti-gravs to it. |
| 1993 D. Carey Great Starship Race xix.253 | She limped down the passage, to a coffin-size piece of metal hanging from two antigravs. |
| 1993 J. Brunner Muddle Earth 161 | How exactly did acrobats and tumblers using antigrav for extra bounce correspond to the crowned heads of India and Indonesia (simulated)? |
| 1994 L. A. Graf Firestorm viii. 72 | Chekov slipped an antigrav from along one side and fixed it to the box on the top of the pile. |
| 1995 D. Carey & J.I. Kirkland First Frontier iv. xxxiv. 343 | Organize all hands and have them pick up the scattered pieces of the platform and those antigravs over there and the tools down the slope. |
| 1996 W. Shatner Return v. 29 | He felt the abrupt tug of the antigravs pulling on his equipment harness. |
| 1997 W. Shatner Avenger i. 7 | Silhouetted against that light, dark figures unleaded crates with antigravs. |