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time-like

time-like is the alternative spelling of timelike.

Meaning of timelike

Adjective

timelike (comparative more timelike, superlative most timelike)

  1. Of a four-vector in representing a point in spacetime, having a positive or negative four-vector norm for the metric signature (+, -, -, -) and (-, +, +, +) respectively.
  2. (of the interval between two events in spacetime) Having overlapping light cones, so that information can pass from one to the other, and one can be envisaged as a cause of the other.

Forms of time-like

comparativemore time-like
superlativemost time-like

Questions about time-like

What is time-like the alternative spelling of?
Time-like is the alternative spelling of timelike.

Words near time-like in the dictionary

  1. time-lagged
  2. time-lagging
  3. time-lags
  4. time-lapse
  5. time-lapses
  6. time-like
  7. time-limit
  8. time-limited
  9. time-limits
  10. time-line
  11. time-lines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: time-like (page history and authors); timelike (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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