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the state of having a relation to or connection with or being necessarily reliant upon something else
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Recent Examples of relativity
Albert Einstein founded his theories of relativity on the notion that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, however, something that should preclude the instantaneous nature of entanglement.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 7 Jan. 2025
And the extra complexity on top of relativity gives the theory some troubling ambiguity.
—Paul M. Sutter, Scientific American, 26 Feb. 2025
So, Einstein's theory of relativity is safe around the clock.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Feb. 2025
This is a popular linguistic relativity theory and is generally referred to as Whorfianism or the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (partially associated with anthropologist Benjamin Whorf).
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 7 Jan. 2025
And the extra complexity on top of relativity gives the theory some troubling ambiguity.
—Paul M. Sutter, Scientific American, 26 Feb. 2025
So, Einstein's theory of relativity is safe around the clock.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Feb. 2025
This is a popular linguistic relativity theory and is generally referred to as Whorfianism or the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (partially associated with anthropologist Benjamin Whorf).
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for relativity
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“Relativity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/relativity. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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