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Einsteinian
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2019 March 14
Etymology
thumb|Albert Einstein in 1933
From en de Einstein, the surname of Albert Einstein (1879–1955) + en -ian 1 suffix forming adjectives or nouns meaning ‘belonging to, relating to, or like’.
Pronunciation
en /aɪnˈstaɪ.nɪ.ən/ RP,GA
en en-au-Einsteinian.ogg AU
en Ein stein i an
Adjective
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Of or relating to the German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein or his scientific theories.
en Einsteiny<q:informal>
en non-Einsteinian un-Einsteinian
en University of California Publications in Philosophy Berkeley, Calif. w:University of California Press 1924 250 606203654 Referring to equations (1) and (2), which give respectively the Newtonian-Einsteinian transformations and the transformations from and times to Newtonian or Einsteinian times, we see a decided resemblance between them.
en H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft w:The Whisperer in Darkness w:Farnsworth Wright Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual Indianapolis, Ind. Popular Fiction Pub. Co. August 1931 XVIII 1 chapter 3 45 https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v18n01_1931-08.Popular_Fiction_ATLPM-Sas/page/n46/mode/1up 1 55045234 The blasphemies which appeared on earth, it was hinted, came from the dark planet Yuggoth, at the rim of the solar system; but this was itself merely the populous outpost of a frightful interstellar race whose ultimate source must lie far outside even the Einsteinian space-time continuum or greatest known cosmos.
en w:Joseph Runzo World Views and the Epistemic Foundations of Theism World Views and Perceiving God New York, N.Y. w:St. Martin's Press 1993 X 133–134 https://books.google.com/books?id=_bGvCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA133 10.1007/978-1-349-23106-5 978-1-349-23108-9 If a physicist in the early part of this century were trying to decide whether to accept an Einsteinian conception of space and time, the issue would not be, 'Is the Einsteinian account true?' The issue to be addressed is the pragmatic question of whether the new Einsteinian conception seems to solve what are regarded as the most pressing current puzzles, has the greater scope for future explanation, etc.
en Floyd Merrell Rules are There to be Broken? Peirce, Signs, and Meaning Toronto Studies in Semiotics Toronto, Ont.; Buffalo, N.Y. w:University of Toronto Press 1997 part IV (If so, then into the Breakers, Vortices, Cross-currents, and Undertows of Semiosis) 254 https://books.google.com/books?id=mhWmpur20uUC&pg=PA254 978-0-8020-7982-4 This talk of pre-Einsteinian and Einsteinian worlds reveals another facet to the dilemma between the two interlocutors.
en w:Douglas Preston; w:Lincoln Child 5 https://books.google.com/books?id=e1LVAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT18 The Lost Island A Gideon Crew Novel book 3 New York, N.Y. w:Grand Central Publishing 2014 978-1-4555-2577-5 [H]e was ushered into a neat little office on the third floor, where he was greeted by a charming, roly-poly man with gold-rimmed spectacles and a huge shock of Einsteinian hair, dressed in an old-fashioned tweed suit with a vest and gold watch chain, looking like a man out of a Dickens novel.
Derived terms
en Einsteinian relativity
en Einsteinianism
Related terms
en Einstein einstein Einstein field equation Einsteinism einsteinium Einstein-Rosen bridge Einstein's constant
Translations
of or relating to Albert Einstein
Catalan: ca einsteinià
Czech: cs einsteinovský
Danish: da einsteinsk
Finnish: fi einsteinilainen
French: fr einsteinien
Galician: gl einsteiniano m
Georgian: ka აინშტაინური
Italian: it einsteiniano
Portuguese: pt einsteiniano
Spanish: es einsteiniano
See also
en relativistic
Further reading
Albert Einstein
en eponyms terms suffixed with -ian