timelike

See also: time-like

English

Alternative forms

• time-like

Etymology

time +‎ -like

Adjective

timelike (comparative more timelike, superlative most timelike)

1. (mathematics, physics) Of a four-vector in representing a point in spacetime, having a positive or negative four-vector norm for the metric signature (+, -, -, -) and (-, +, +, +) respectively.
2. (physics) (of the interval between two events in spacetime) Having overlapping light cones, so that information can pass from one to the other, and one can be envisaged as a cause of the other.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• closed timelike curve
• future directed timelike vector
• past directed timelike vector
• timelike component
• timelike congruence
• timelikeness
• timelike path
• timelike vector field

Translations

mathematics, physics: of a four-vector

• German: zeitartig

physics: of the interval between two events in spacetime

• German: zeitartig

See also

• lightlike
• spacelike