Minkowski diagram

English

Etymology

Developed by Hermann Minkowski in 1908.

Noun

Minkowski diagram (plural Minkowski diagrams)

  1. (physics) A kind of spacetime diagram in the form of a two-dimensional graph depicting events as happening in a universe consisting of one space dimension (horizontal axis) and one time dimension (vertical axis).
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