PRINCIPLE OF EQUIVALENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does principle of equivalence mean? 

• PRINCIPLE OF EQUIVALENCE (noun)
  The noun PRINCIPLE OF EQUIVALENCE has 1 sense:

1. (physics) the principle that an observer has no way of distinguishing whether his laboratory is in a uniform gravitational field or is in an accelerated frame of reference

  Familiarity information: PRINCIPLE OF EQUIVALENCE used as a noun is very rare.

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• PRINCIPLE OF EQUIVALENCE (noun)

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Meaning:

(physics) the principle that an observer has no way of distinguishing whether his laboratory is in a uniform gravitational field or is in an accelerated frame of reference

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("principle of equivalence" is a kind of...):

principle; rule (a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)