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The fall of a body within the atmosphere without a drag-producing device such as a parachute.
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The ideal falling motion of a body that is subject only to the earth's gravitational field.
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Rapid uncontrolled decline: "The markets threatened to go into free fall and we came within an eyelash of ... an uncontrollable panic” ( Felix Rohatyn).
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