Timelike
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Timelike is an adjective meaning (mathematics, physics) Of a four-vector in representing a point in spacetime, having a positive or negative four-vector norm for the metric signature (+, -, -, -) and (-, +, +, +) respectively.
Meaning
(mathematics, physics) Of a four-vector in representing a point in spacetime, having a positive or negative four-vector norm for the metric signature (+, -, -, -) and (-, +, +, +) respectively.
More Meanings
- (physics) (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.
Word Forms
- time-like
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include geodesic, geodesics, time-like, four-dimensional, scalar, time-dependent.
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