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Relativity

noun

(physics) the theory that space and time are relative concepts rather than absolute concepts. Synonyms: Einstein's theory of relativity, relativity theory, theory of relativity.

The quality of being relative and having significance only in relation to something else.

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"Relativity" Quotes from Famous Books

... on in human nature, it is the duty of ethics to make allowance for them, both in making claims, and in valuing what is done. A new set of ethical problems have their origin here. (Cf. my paper, "The law of relativity in Ethics," "International Journal of Ethics", Vol. I. 1891, pages 37-62.) It is an interesting fact that Stuart Mill's book "On Liberty" appeared in the same year as "The Origin of Species". Though Mill ...

— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others

... far beyond that possible to our psychic judge, and the audience would encourage him by their readiness to grasp the revelations made. The language of mysticism, philosophy, and poetry would be strained to its utmost capacity. Then a sense of incompleteness, of deficiency, of hopeless relativity would overcome the audience. The medium had exerted every spiritual faculty to receive the truth. But the visitor could not convey ...

— Mountain Meditations - and some subjects of the day and the war • L. Lind-af-Hageby

... cannot we have one of those instructive and amusing conversations such as children love, about refraction, and relativity, and initial velocity, ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100., February 7, 1891 • Various

... Hillbridge circle, where rapture ran the highest, he was accepted on what was at best but an indirect valuation; and now and then she had a frightened doubt as to the independence of her own convictions. That innate sense of relativity which even East Onondaigua had not been able to check in Claudia Day had been fostered in Mrs. Keniston by the artistic absolutism of Hillbridge, and she often wondered that her husband remained so uncritical of the quality of admiration accorded him. Her husband's uncritical attitude ...

— Crucial Instances • Edith Wharton

... Dick said cautiously, "and then again they mightn't. I don't think myself that there's any use trying to understand things like Time-travelling and Relativity. People like us ...

— The Happy Adventurers • Lydia Miller Middleton

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