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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

spacelike en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈspeɪslaɪk/

Etymology

From space + -like. Compare spacely.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) having the properties of space
  2. (not-comparable, 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
  3. (not-comparable, of a four-vector) having a space component of greater magnitude than its time component multiplied by the speed of light

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
space-like alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

spacelikeness · nonspacelike

Relateds

timelike · lightlike

Translations (3)

de raumartig (physics, of the interval between two events in spacetime) · de raumartig (having the properties of space) · de raumartig (mathematics, of a four-vector)