English Explanatory Dictionary

Minkowski diagram

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kind of spacetime diagram in the form of a two-dimensional graph depicting events as happening in a universe consisting of one space dimension (horizontal axis) and one time dimension (vertical axis).

Word forms

Minkowski diagram Minkowski diagrams

Etymology

Developed by Hermann Minkowski in 1908.

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