relativity
nounEtymology
From relative (“connected to or depending on something else”) + -ity (suffix forming nouns from adjectives where the nouns refer to the properties, qualities, or states described by the adjectives). Sense 2.1 (“reliance of the nature of physical phenomena on the relative motion between an observer and the thing observed”) is a translation of German Relativität (“relativity”) used in the works of the German-American theoretical physicist Albert Einstein (1879–1955). Morphologically relative + -ity.
Definitions
The state of being relative to something else
The state of being relative to something else; the absence of universally applicable rules or standards; relativism; (countable) an instance of this.
Ellipsis of principle of relativity (“the principle that the laws of physics should be…
Ellipsis of principle of relativity (“the principle that the laws of physics should be the same for all observers”).
An evaluation of the similarities and differences between things
An evaluation of the similarities and differences between things; a comparison; hence, a difference in position or status between things; a disparity.
The neighborhood
- neighborrelatival
- neighborrelative
- neighborrelatively
- neighborrelativeness
- neighborrelativisation
- neighborrelativization
- neighborrelativised
- neighborrelativized
- neighborrelativise
- neighborrelativize
- neighborrelativiser
- neighborrelativizer
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for relativity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA