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minkowski diagram

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.24 in modern English

Syllables
minkowski -di-a-gram
IPA
33
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of spacetime diagram in the form of a two-dimensional graph depicting events as happening in a universe consisting of one space dimension (horizontal axis) and one time dimension (vertical axis).

Etymology

Developed by Hermann Minkowski in 1908.

Inflected Forms

Minkowski diagrams (plural)

Questions

What does minkowski diagram mean?
A kind of spacetime diagram in the form of a two-dimensional graph depicting events as happening in a universe consisting of one space dimension (horizontal axis) and one time dimension (vertical axis).
Where does minkowski diagram come from?
Developed by Hermann Minkowski in 1908.

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