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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The path in space-time traveled by an elementary particle for the time and distance that it retains its identity.
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- noun physics A
path inspacetime , especially that traversed by an elementary particle from its creation to its destruction
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