teleparallelism

Meaning

Noun

  • An early attempt at unifying electromagnetism and gravity, according to which a spacetime is characterized by a curvature-free linear connection in conjunction with a metric tensor field, both defined in terms of a dynamical tetrad field.

Related

Similar words

  • teleparallel gravity

Origin

Modern English dictionary

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