Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to relativism.
- adjective Of, relating to, or resulting from speeds approaching the speed of light.
- adjective Having to do with or based on the theory of relativity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective of, pertaining to, or in conformity with the
theory of relativity . - adjective moving at a speed sufficiently high that the changes of mass or time dilation predicted by the theory of relativity may be observed; moving at a significant fraction of the speed of light.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective physics of, or relating to
relativity - adjective physics at, or near the
speed of light - adjective philosophy of, or relating to
relativism
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of relativism
- adjective relating or subject to the special or the general theory of relativity
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And the description of how electrons behave in graphene requires a new description of what we call a relativistic description of the electron system, and ...
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And the description of how electrons behave in graphene requires a new description of what we call a relativistic description of the electron system, and ...
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And the description of how electrons behave in graphene requires a new description of what we call a relativistic description of the electron system, and ...
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And the description of how electrons behave in graphene requires a new description of what we call a relativistic description of the electron system, and ...
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And the description of how electrons behave in graphene requires a new description of what we call a relativistic description of the electron system, and ...
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And the description of how electrons behave in graphene requires a new description of what we call a relativistic description of the electron system, and ...
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"Retrocausality" contradicts the well-established principle of causality, which still applies in relativistic physics, quantum mechanics, and the product of their marriage, relativistic QFT.
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Relativistic … relativistic is the vision of the USA GOP, thousands of miles away of the wars they wage but not declare.
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Time may be called a relativistic dimension or a mythic Burning Wheel but it is also the Bridge aflame behind us all.
do you ever read writing? Peter DeWolf 2010
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Every nasty piece of so-called relativistic, speculative philosophy coming out of Linguistic Analysis departments and so on, is based on Kant's notion that man is incapable of knowing anything: because man processes knowledge through cognition he can only see reality through his own very limited prism.
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