Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun principle_of_equivalence

1 sense of principle of equivalence

Sense 1
principle of equivalence -- ((physics) the principle that an observer has no way of distinguishing whether his laboratory is in a uniform gravitational field or is in an accelerated frame of reference)
       => principle, rule -- (a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system; "the principle of the conservation of mass"; "the principle of jet propulsion"; "the right-hand rule for inductive fields")