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Lorentz factor en · NOUN

Etymology

From its appearance in Lorentzian electrodynamics, named after Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz.

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:relativity, uncountable) a factor arising in special relativity, to calculate the degree of time dilation, length contraction and relativistic mass of an object moving relative to an observer, defined as (1-v²/c²)^(-0.5), where v and c are relative velocity and the speed of light, respectively

Relateds

speed parameter

Translations (5)

de Lorentzfaktor (Lorentz factor) · id faktor Lorentz (Lorentz factor) · ms faktor Lorentz (Lorentz factor) · sv Lorentzfaktor (Lorentz factor) · pl czynnik Lorentza (Lorentz factor)