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Definition of Space-time

1. Noun. The four-dimensional coordinate system (3 dimensions of space and 1 of time) in which physical events are located.

Definition of Space-time

1. Noun. (physics) (alternative form of spacetime) ¹

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Literary usage of Space-time

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein (1921)
"... XXVI THE space-time CONTINUUM OF THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY CONSIDERED AS A EUCLIDEAN CONTINUUM WE are now in a position to formulate more exactly ..."

2. Space and Time in Contemporary Physics: An Introduction to the Theory of by Moritz Schlick (1920)
"... OF THE space-time CONTINUUM THE idea of relativity has only been applied in the preceding pages to physical thought in so far as it bears on motions. ..."

3. Space and Time in Contemporary Physics: An Introduction to the Theory of by Moritz Schlick (1920)
"... OF THE space-time CONTINUUM THE idea of relativity has only been applied in the preceding pages to physical thought in so far as it bears on motions. ..."

4. Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein (1920)
"... the special theory of relativity, certain co-ordinate systems are given preference for the description of the four-dimensional, space-time continuum. ..."

5. The New Realism: Coöperative Studies in Philosophy by Edwin Bissell Holt (1912)
"It would be easy from this point of view to describe as functions of space, time, and quality various less fundamental concepts. ..."

6. The New Realism: Coöperative Studies in Philosophy by Edwin Bissell Holt, Walter Taylor Marvin, William Pepperell Montague, Ralph Barton Perry, Walter B. Pitkin, Edward Gleason Spaulding (1912)
"It would be easy from this point of view to describe as functions of space, time, and quality various less fundamental concepts. ..."

7. The New Idealism by May Sinclair (1922)
"For pure Space-Time there is no bridge from point to point; Time makes none; it only serves, in the form of motion, to pick out point from point, ..."

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