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Noun

1. 1
   An early attempt at unifying electromagnetism and gravity, according to which a spacetime is characterized by a curvature-free linear connection in conjunction with a metric tensor field, both defined in terms of a dynamical tetrad field. uncountable

Synonyms

All synonyms

teleparallel gravityteleparallel gravity

Etymology

From tele- + parallelism.

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