LENGTH CONTRACTION meaning: Shortening of objects at speed - OneLook

Usually means: Shortening of objects at speed.

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▸ noun: (physics) Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction

Similar:

Lorentz contraction, Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction, time dilatation, time dilation, Lorentz factor, Lorentz transformation, Lorentz symmetry, Lorentz group, lambda, Lorentz invariant, more...

Opposite:

length expansion, dilation

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Similar:

Lorentz contraction, Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction, time dilatation, time dilation, Lorentz factor, Lorentz transformation, Lorentz symmetry, Lorentz group, lambda, Lorentz invariant, more...

Opposite:

length expansion, dilation

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