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relativity
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What does relativity mean?
noun
- The state of being relative to something else; the absence of universally applicable rules or standards; relativism; (countable) an instance of this.
- Ellipsis of principle of relativity (“the principle that the laws of physics should be the same for all observers”).
- Also Einsteinian relativity: the reliance of the nature of physical phenomena (such as gravity, light, mass, and time) on the relative motion between an observer and the thing observed, as developed by Albert Einstein in two theories, special relativity and general relativity.
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noun
- An evaluation of the similarities and differences between things; a comparison; hence, a difference in position or status between things; a disparity.
- The difference in pay or positions between different employees in a business (internal relativity), or between different businesses (external relativity); a differential.
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This poem is INFORMED throughout with the poet’s iterated doctrine in regard to earth life,--to the relativity of that life.
The relativity of time, space, motion and matter is an actuality brought to the attention of advanced students on Mars.
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In this discourse Zarathustra opens his exposition of the doctrine of relativity in morality, and declares all morality to be a mere means to power.
Zennism, like Taoism, is the worship of Relativity.
His tranquil unsuspectingness of the relativity of his own place in the social scale was probably irritating to M. de Bellegarde, who saw himself reflected in the mind of his potential brother-in-law in a crude and colorless form, unpleasantly dissimilar to the impressive image projected upon his own intellectual mirror.