PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does principle of relativity mean? 

• PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY (noun)
  The noun PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY has 1 sense:

1. (physics) a universal law that states that the laws of mechanics are not affected by a uniform rectilinear motion of the system of coordinates to which they are referred

  Familiarity information: PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(physics) a universal law that states that the laws of mechanics are not affected by a uniform rectilinear motion of the system of coordinates to which they are referred

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("principle of relativity" is a kind of...):

law; law of nature (a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)