teleparallelism

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noun

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.

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teleparallel gravity
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Meanings

nounteleparallelism (uncountable)
  1. uncountablenatural sciencesAn 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.

    Synonyms: teleparallel gravity

Synonyms & antonyms

nounAn 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.

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teleparallel gravity

Origin

From tele- + parallelism.

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APA

teleparallelism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/teleparallelism

MLA

“teleparallelism.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/teleparallelism. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “teleparallelism,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/teleparallelism.

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