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teleparallelism

noun

Etymology

From tele- + parallelism.

  1. borrowed from parallēlus,parallēlos
  2. borrowed from parallèle
  3. suffixed as parallelism — “parallel + ism”
  4. prefixed as teleparallelism — “tele + parallelism”

Definitions

  1. An early attempt at unifying electromagnetism and gravity, according to which a spacetime…

    An early attempt at unifying electromagnetism and gravity, according to which a spacetime is characterized by a curvature-free linear connection in conjunction with a metric tensor field, both defined in terms of a dynamical tetrad field.

The neighborhood

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