relativity
中文来自 ECDICT
- n.
- 有关系，相关性，相对性
构词拆分
relative词根/词干
“connected to or depending on something else”
+
-ity后缀
Used to form an uncountable noun from an adjective; especially, to form the noun referring to the state, property, or quality of conforming to the adjective's description. · Used to form a countable noun from an adjective, referring to someone or something that conforms to the adjective's description.
演变路径（由近及远）
- 英语
- 源自 ←德语 Relativität “relativity”
词源说明
From relative (“connected to or depending on something else”) + -ity (suffix forming nouns from adjectives where the nouns refer to the properties, qualities, or states described by the adjectives). Sense 2.1 (“reliance of the nature of physical phenomena on the relative motion between an observer and the thing observed”) is a translation of German Relativität (“relativity”) used in the works of the German-American theoretical physicist Albert Einstein (1879–1955).
释义（英文）
名词 Noun
- (uncountable) The state of being relative to something else; the absence of universally applicable rules or standards; relativism; (countable) an instance of this.
- (uncountable, physics