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It means the appearance that something is not being affected by gravity.
Explanation:
Example: an object seemingly suspended in the air, such as a bird hovering above the ground that is not flapping it's wings. It seems to be defying gravity because it's not falling to earth as if it were a rock or something like that.
Of course the reason the bird doesn't fall is there is a wind current that we can't see pushing upward on the bird with exactly the same force that gravity is trying to pull the bird to the ground. The two forces cancel each other out, giving the impression that the bird is not being affected by gravity. However, everything is * always * affected by gravity. Anything that attempts to defy gravity is either an illusion or a case of an upward force exactly matching the downward force of gravity.
