What does spacelike mean?
Spacelike means having the properties of space.
Spacelike
/ˈspeɪslaɪk/ · adjective
Meaning
having the properties of space.
Definitions by Sense
- having the properties of space
- (physics, of the interval between two events in spacetime) lying outside each other's light cone, so that no information can pass from one to the other
- (mathematics, of a four-vector) having a space component of greater magnitude than its time component multiplied by the speed of light
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Word Forms
- space-like
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