time dilation
Physics
noun
The apparent slowing down of the passage of time in a frame of reference moving relative to the observer.
- This is a relativistic effect analogous to the increase in mass and the Lorentz contraction of length..
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Henry Brose (b. 1890). After German Zeitdilatation.
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