general relativity

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Noun

general relativity (uncountable)

1. (relativity) A theory extending special relativity and uniformly accounting for gravity and accelerated frames of reference, postulating that space-time curves in the presence of mass.

Translations

theory in physics

• Albanian: relativiteti i përgjithshëm m, teoria e relativitetit të përgjithshëm f
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: ümumi nisbilik nəzəriyyəsi
• Belarusian: агульная тэорыя адноснасці f (ahulʹnaja teóryja adnósnasci), агульная тэорыя рэлятыўнасці f (ahulʹnaja teóryja reljatyŭnasci)
• Bengali: সাধারণ আপেক্ষিকতা (śadharon apekkhikota), আপেক্ষিকতার সাধারণ তত্ত্ব (apekkhiktar śadharon totto)
• Burmese: ယေဘုယျနှိုင်းရသီအိုရီ (yebhu.yya.hnuing:ra.siuiri)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 廣義相對論／广义相对论 (gwong² ji⁶ soeng¹ deoi³ leon⁶)

  Hokkien: 一般相對性理論／一般相对性理论 (it-poaⁿ siong-tùi-sèng lí-lūn), 一般相對論／一般相对论 (it-poaⁿ song-tùi-lūn)

  Mandarin: 廣義相對論／广义相对论 (zh) (guǎngyì xiāngduìlùn)

• Danish: almen relativitet c
• Dutch: algemene relativiteitstheorie f
• Finnish: yleinen suhteellisuusteoria
• French: relativité générale (fr) f
• Galician: relatividade xeral f
• Georgian: ფარდობითობის ზოგადი თეორია (pardobitobis zogadi teoria)
• German: Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie (de) f, allgemeine Relativitätstheorie (de) f
• Greek: γενική σχετικότητα (el) f (genikí schetikótita)
• Hungarian: általános relativitáselmélet (hu)
• Icelandic: almenna afstæðiskenningin f
• Indonesian: relativitas umum
• Italian: relatività generale f
• Japanese: 一般相対性理論 (いっぱんそうたいせいりろん, ippan sōtaiseiriron)
• Kazakh: жалпы салыстырмалылық теориясы (jalpy salystyrmalylyq teoriäsy)
• Korean: 일반 상대성이론(一般相對性理論) (ilban sangdaeseong'iron), 일반상대론(一般相對論) (ilbansangdaeron)
• Latin: theoria relativitatis generalis f, relativitas generalis f
• Lithuanian: bendrasis reliatyvumas m, bendroji reliatyvumo teorija f
• Malayalam: സാമാന്യ ആപേക്ഷികതാസിദ്ധാന്തം (sāmānya āpēkṣikatāsiddhāntaṁ)
• Polish: ogólna teoria względności f
• Portuguese: relatividade geral f
• Romanian: relativitatea generală f, teoria relativității generale f
• Russian: о́бщая тео́рия относи́тельности (ru) f (óbščaja teórija otnosítelʹnosti)
• Scots: general theory o relativity
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: опћа теорија релативности f (Croatian), општа теорија релативности f (Bosnian, Serbian)

  Roman: opća teorija relativnosti f (Croatian), opšta teorija relativnosti f (Bosnian, Serbian)

• Spanish: relatividad general f
• Turkish: genel görelilik, genel görelilik kuramı
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: thuyết tương đối rộng (說相對廣), thuyết tương đối tổng quát (說相對總括)

See also

• principle of relativity
• special relativity
• Einstein field equations

Further reading

• general relativity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia