teleparallelism
An early attempt at unifying electromagnetism and gravity, according to which a…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.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)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.
Origin
From tele- + parallelism.From tele- + parallelism.
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Synonyms
1 synonymsteleparallel gravity
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable