Skip to main content

principle of equivalence

等价交换原则,等效原则,等价原则,等值原则

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Physics.

    • : the principle that, in any small region of space-time, the effects of a gravitational field are indistinguishable from those of an appropriate acceleration of the frame of reference.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Nuclear clocks could also test a foundation of Einstein’s gravity theory — the equivalence principle.

  • In confirming Galileo’s gravity experiment yet again, the result upholds the equivalence principle, a foundation of Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, general relativity.

  • But the qualities Mario Cuomo brought to public life—compassion, integrity, commitment to principle—remain in short supply today.

  • Nixon said defending the two islands was “a matter of principle.”

  • Bratton might have said something that was closer to a real-world moral equivalence.

  • He was trying, I think, to demonstrate balance and equivalence.

  • If the noble experiment of American democracy is to mean anything, it is fidelity to the principle of freedom.

  • Many so-called "humming tones" are given for practice, but in accepting them observe whether the foregoing principle is obeyed.

  • The grand thing is to have each of your five fingers go "dum, dum," an equal number of times, which is the principle of all three!

  • He had hitherto lived for universal man:—his days should terminate on a different principle.

  • The gauge of railways in Great Britain was not fixed upon any scientific principle.

  • I have erected above 100 steam-engines on this principle, but never met with one accident or complaint against them.