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-ion word-forming element attached to verbs, making nouns of state, condition, or action, from French -ion or directly from Latin -ionem (nominative -io, genitive -ionis), common suffix forming abstract nouns from verbs.
maglev
system of rail transportation using two sets of magnets, 1973, a contraction of magnetic levitation.
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Definitions of levitation
levitation (n.)
the phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means;
levitation (n.)
movement upward in virtue of lightness;
levitation (n.)
the act of raising (a body) from the ground by presumably spiritualistic means;
