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Space-time   /speɪs-taɪm/   Listen
Space-time

noun
1.
The four-dimensional coordinate system (3 dimensions of space and 1 of time) in which physical events are located.  Synonym: space-time continuum.






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"Space-time" Quotes from Famous Books



... Inferences from the General Principle of Relativity 23. Behaviour of Clocks and Measuring-Rods on a Rotating Body of Reference 24. Euclidean and non-Euclidean Continuum 25. Gaussian Co-ordinates 26. The Space-Time Continuum of the Speical Theory of Relativity Considered as a Euclidean Continuum 27. The Space-Time Continuum of the General Theory of Relativity is Not a Eculidean Continuum 28. Exact Formulation of the General Principle of Relativity 29. The Solution of the Problem ...
— Relativity: The Special and General Theory • Albert Einstein

... long the four of them had been plunging toward the red-rimmed sun that never seemed to get any nearer. When the ultra-drive had gone crazy the four of them had blanked out and nobody could say now how long an interim that had been. Nobody knew what happened to a man who suffered a space-time warping like that. When they had regained consciousness, the ship was pretty banged up, and the meteor-repeller shields cracked. A meteor ripped the ship down the center like an ...
— To Each His Star • Bryce Walton



Words linked to "Space-time" :   frame of reference, coordinate system, reference frame, reference system, space-time continuum



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