principle of equivalence

1. 1.

   (physics) the principle that an observer has no way of distinguishing whether his laboratory is in a uniform gravitational field or is in an accelerated frame of reference

   Broaderprinciple

   physics

Questions about principle of equivalence

What does principle of equivalence mean?

principle of equivalence means "(physics) the principle that an observer has no way of distinguishing whether his laboratory is in a uniform gravitational field or is in an accelerated frame of reference".

Is principle of equivalence a common word?

principle of equivalence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.