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teleparallelism

teleparallelism noun: 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.

Noun

teleparallelism (uncountable)

  1. 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.
    Synonyms:
    teleparallel gravity

Synonyms of teleparallelism

  • teleparallel gravity

Origin of teleparallelism

From tele- + parallelism.

Questions about teleparallelism

What does teleparallelism mean?
Teleparallelism means 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.
What part of speech is teleparallelism?
Teleparallelism is a noun.

Words near teleparallelism in the dictionary

  1. telepaediatric
  2. telepaediatrics
  3. telepaper
  4. telepapers
  5. teleparallel
  6. teleparallelism
  7. telepath
  8. telepathed
  9. telepathetic
  10. telepathetically
  11. telepathic

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