einsteinian
/aɪnˈstaɪ.nɪ.ən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.45 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to the German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein or his scientific theories.
Example Sentences
- "Referring to equations (1) and (2), which give respectively the Newtonian-Einsteinian transformations and the transformations from R and L times to Newtonian or Einsteinian times, we see a decided resemblance between them."
- "The blasphemies which appeared on earth, it was hinted, came from the dark planet Yuggoth, at the rim of the solar system; but this was itself merely the populous outpost of a frightful interstellar race whose ultimate source must lie far outside even the Einsteinian space-time continuum or greatest known cosmos."
- "If a physicist in the early part of this century were trying to decide whether to accept an Einsteinian conception of space and time, the issue would not be, 'Is the Einsteinian account true?' […] The issue to be addressed is the pragmatic question of whether the new Einsteinian conception seems to solve what are regarded as the most pressing current puzzles, has the greater scope for future explanation, etc."
- "This talk of pre-Einsteinian and Einsteinian worlds reveals another facet to the dilemma between the two interlocutors."
- "[H]e was ushered into a neat little office on the third floor, where he was greeted by a charming, roly-poly man with gold-rimmed spectacles and a huge shock of Einsteinian hair, dressed in an old-fashioned tweed suit with a vest and gold watch chain, looking like a man out of a Dickens novel."
Etymology
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Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /aɪnˈstaɪ.nɪ.ən/
- British English: /aɪnˈstaɪ.nɪ.ən/
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Antonyms
non-Einsteinian
un-Einsteinian