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Lightlike vs Nightlike - What's the difference?

lightlike | nightlike |

As adjectives the difference between lightlike and nightlike

is that lightlike is (of a four-vector) having a space component whose magnitude is equal to its time component multiplied by the speed of light while nightlike is resembling night or some aspect of it; dark, tenebrous.

lightlike

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (mathematics) (of a four-vector ) having a space component whose magnitude is equal to its time component multiplied by the speed of light

    • See also

    * spacelike * timelike

    nightlike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling night or some aspect of it; dark, tenebrous.

    • Anagrams

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