teleparallelism

English

Etymology

From tele- +‎ parallelism.

Noun

teleparallelism (uncountable)

1. (physics) An early attempt at unifying electromagnetism and gravity, according to which a spacetime is characterized by a curvature-free linear connection in conjunction with a metric tensor field, both defined in terms of a dynamical tetrad field.

Synonyms

• teleparallel gravity