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UK
/ɹɪlɐtˈɪvɪti/
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[ US /ˌɹɛɫəˈtɪvəti/ ]
[ US /ˌɹɛɫəˈtɪvəti/ ]
NOUN
- (physics) the theory that space and time are relative concepts rather than absolute concepts
- the quality of being relative and having significance only in relation to something else
How To Use relativity In A Sentence
- If relativity is all that incomprehensible why wasn't the matter dropped?
- The Nobel laureate Richard Feynman once made a tentative suggestion that a theory uniting quantum mechanics and relativity might lead to an objective state reduction, and others have taken up and built on this idea.
- According to the theory of relativity, nothing can travel faster than light.
- The aim of the study is to make clear if there is relativity between cross protection and structural gene of fimbriae.
- In a world where all nonrelativistic truth has been abolished, the relativity principle itself is proclaimed as a universal verity.
- Operations performed to measure local time and local length are accepted as unanalysed operations in both classical physics and relativity physics.
- But in relativity, every event in your life defines a single 4-D object called your world-line and it's all there already. News
- Most fictional time machines disappear in one time and reappear in another, but real time machines use the strange effects of relativity on time and space. Times, Sunday Times
- Newton's absolute time may feel like an accurate description of the beast that rules our daily lives, but in science the notion was shattered in 1905 by Einstein's special theory of relativity.
- In 1922, the Russian physicist Alexander Friedmann predicted from general relativity that the universe should be expanding.