Associations to the word «Einstein»

EINSTEIN, proper noun. Albert Einstein, the world-famous 20th Century theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity.

EINSTEIN, proper noun. A surname​.

EINSTEIN, noun. An extremely clever or intelligent person.

EINSTEIN, noun. (photochemistry) One mole of photons, regardless of frequency, as used to measure irradiance.

EINSTEIN BARRIER, noun. Also known as the light barrier, the speed of light viewed as an uncrossable barrier to acceleration from subluminal and superluminal speeds in special relativity.

EINSTEIN CONSTANT, noun. Alternative form of Einstein's constant

EINSTEIN FIELD EQUATION, noun. (relativity) A symmetric 4 × 4 tensor equation in general relativity in which the gravitational force is described as a curvature of spacetime caused by matter and energy.

EINSTEIN FIELD EQUATIONS, noun. Plural of Einstein field equation

EINSTEIN REFRIGERATOR, noun. An absorption refrigerator that has no moving parts, operates at constant pressure, and requires only a heat source to operate.

EINSTEIN REFRIGERATORS, noun. Plural of Einstein refrigerator

EINSTEIN RING, noun. A ring-shaped gravitational mirage: a image of a distant light source (such as a galaxy) which has been distorted into a ring by a gravitational lens.

EINSTEIN SPACE, noun. (mathematics) A Riemann space in which the contracted curvature tensor is proportional to the metric tensor

EINSTEIN SPACES, noun. Plural of Einstein space

EINSTEIN, noun. Physicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity; Einstein also proposed that light consists of discrete quantized bundles of energy (later called photons) (1879-1955).

EINSTEIN, noun. Someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality; "Mozart was a child genius"; "he's smart but he's no Einstein".