timelike

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of a four-vector in representing a point in spacetime, having a positive or negative four-vector norm for the metric signature (+, -, -, -) and (-, +, +, +) respectively.
  2. (of the interval between two events in spacetime) Having overlapping light cones, so that information can pass from one to the other, and one can be envisaged as a cause of the other.

词形变化

more timelike comparative most timelike superlative time-like alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
closed timelike curve future directed timelike vector past directed timelike vector timelike component timelike congruence timelikeness timelike path timelike vector field
相关词
lightlike spacelike

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *deh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y-
Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ
Proto-Indo-European *dh₂i-mon-
Proto-Germanic *tīmô
Proto-West Germanic *tīmō
Old English tīma
Middle English tyme
English time
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-West Germanic *-līk
Old English -līċ
Middle English -like
English -like
English timelike
From time + -like.
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