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Born rigidity

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A concept in special relativity that corresponds to the rigid body of nonrelativistic classical mechanics. It is satisfied if the orthogonal spacetime distance between infinitesimally separated curves or world lines is constant.

Word forms

Born rigidity

Etymology

The concept was introduced by Max Born in 1909.

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