Minkowskianadj.
/mɪŋˈkɒfskɪən/, U.S. /mɪŋˈkaʊskiən/, /mɪŋˈkɑfskiən/ Mathematics and Physics.
Designating, relating to, or characteristic of the flat, four-dimensional space-time used by Hermann Minkowski in his geometrical descriptions of special relativity. See Minkowski n.
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1919 Sci. Abstr. A. 22 142 The Minkowskian Eigenzeit.
1957 Physics Rev. 105 1091/2 A local Minkowskian coordinate system.
1989 R. Penrose Emperor's New Mind (1991) v. 197 The basic structure of Minkowskian geometry..contains the very essence of special relativity.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1919- compliment into a state, out of
- compliment into a state, out of a thing
- compliment-monger
- complimentable
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- complimentality
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- compliments
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- compline
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