relativity
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
(physics) the theory that space and time are relative concepts rather than absolute concepts
Types & categories
- scientific theory hypernym
- general relativity hyponym
- special relativity hyponym
Related & opposite
- relativistic derivation
- physics domain topic
- event has domain topic
Sense 2 noun
the quality of being relative and having significance only in relation to something else
Types & categories
- quality hypernym
Related & opposite
- relative derivation
- proportional derivation
- relativistic derivation
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | relativistic |
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | physics |
| 1 | has domain topic | Related & opposite | event |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | scientific theory |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | general relativity |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | special relativity |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | relative |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | proportional |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | relativistic |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | quality |