Einstein
Americannoun
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Albert 1879–1955, German physicist, U.S. citizen from 1940: formulator of the theory of relativity; Nobel Prize 1921.
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Alfred 1880–1952, German musicologist in U.S.
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(lowercase) a unit of radiant energy, equal to the energy of radiation that is capable of photochemically changing one mol of a photosensitive substance.
noun
Other Word Forms
- Einsteinian adjective
Example Sentences
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It's hard to call, so this was one of the games I mentioned earlier where I was thinking, 'What would Einstein say?'.
From BBC
"In addition, when the pulses travel near a very massive object, they may be deflected and experience time delays due to the warping of space-time, as predicted by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity."
From Science Daily
This concept was first introduced more than a century ago by Albert Einstein and has been central to modern predictions about how the universe will evolve.
From Science Daily
Did Albert Einstein need extra help with physics?
From Literature
It is the clearest gravitational wave signal ever recorded from a pair of merging black holes, giving researchers an unusually sharp tool for testing Albert Einstein's theory of gravity, called general relativity.
From Science Daily
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