teleparallelism
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
tele- + parallelism
Noun[edit]
teleparallelism (uncountable)
- (physics) 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.