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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A linear map that expresses the time and space coordinates of one reference frame in terms of those of another one.
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- noun mathematics, physics A
transformation relating thespacetime coordinates of oneframe of reference to another inspecial relativity .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Hendrik Lorentz.]
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