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Definition 2024
spacelike
spacelike
See also: space-like
English
Alternative forms
Adjective
spacelike (not comparable)
- having the properties of space
- (physics, of the interval between two events in spacetime) lying outside each other's light cone, so that no information can pass from one to the other
- (mathematics, of a four-vector) having a space component of greater magnitude than its time component multiplied by the speed of light
Translations
having the properties of space
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physics, of the interval between two events in spacetime
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mathematics, of a four-vector
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