ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Space-time

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Space-time is a noun meaning (physics) Alternative form of spacetime.

Meaning

(physics) Alternative form of spacetime.

Example Sentences

A mass effect drive core decreases the mass of a bubble of space-time around a ship. This gives the ship the potential to move quickly, but does not apply any motive power.
Scientists have detected ripples in space-time from the violent collision of two massive black holes that spiralled into one another far beyond the distant edge of the Milky Way.

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include time, continuum, spatiotemporal, spacetime, space, tetraspace.

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