Minkowski metric

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Minkowski metric [miŋ′kȯf·skē ′me·trik]

(relativity)

The metric tensor of the Minkowski space-time used in special relativity; it is a 4 × 4 matrix whose nonzero entries lie on the diagonal, with one entry (corresponding to the time coordinate) equal to 1, and three entries (corresponding to space coordinates) equal to -1; sometimes, the negative of this matrix is used.

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