mostly plus
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.58 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
in general relativity, describing the convention in which the metric tensor has a signature of (-,+,+,+).
Example Sentences
- "... two possible choices for the spacetime metric (either the mostly minus metric used in these lectures or the mostly plus metric), ..."
- "I allow myself to be inconsistent in using the “mostly plus” metric in some contexts, but tried to emphasize this deviation properly."
- "We use the mostly plus convention wherein at any space time point a locally inertial frame can be found in which g#95;#123;MN#125;#61;#92;eta#95;#123;MN#125;#92;equiv(-1,#43;1,#92;dots,#43;1)."
- "We use a “mostly plus” metric and the conventions that indices m, n = 0 , 1 , 2 , . . . , 9 run over all of ten - dimensional space - time, M , v = 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 run over the 3 - brane world volume ..."
Antonyms
mostly minus