gravitational singularity
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.99 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
24
Letters
9
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A location where the quantities that are used to measure the gravitational field become infinite in a way that does not depend on the coordinate system.
Example Sentences
- "Seen as a central metaphor, a gravitational singularity is a (theoretical) point at the centre of black holes at which quantities that are otherwise meaningful (e.g., density and spacetime curvature) become infinite, or rather meaningless."