Lorentz-FitzGerald contraction love

Lorentz-FitzGerald contraction

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The shortening of an object along its direction of motion as its speed approaches the speed of light, as measured by an observer at rest with respect to the object.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Hendrik Lorentz and George Francis FitzGerald, (1851–1901), Irish physicist.]

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