timelike

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more timelike 比较级 most timelike 最高级

别名

time-like

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 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.

    数学 物理
  2. 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.

    物理

相关短语

closed timelike curve closed timelike curves

词源

From time + -like.

来源：wiktionary