relativity
意味
- 関係のあること,関連性,相関,相対性
- 《時にR-》(アインシュタインによる)相対性理論
例文
Einstein's theory of relativity is Greek to me.
アインシュタインの相対性理論は私にはちんぷんかんぷんだ。
The theory of relativity originated with Einstein.
相対性理論の創案者はアインシュタインであった。
Few scientists understand the theory of relativity.
相対性理論を理解する科学者は少ない。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
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). Morphologically relative + -ity.