See Lorentz factor in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "physicist",
"2": "",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": ""
},
"expansion": "physicist",
"name": "named-after/list"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "|",
"name": "!"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Hendrik Lorentz"
},
"expansion": "Hendrik Lorentz",
"name": "lang"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Hendrik Lorentz",
"nat": "Dutch",
"nocap": "1",
"occ": "physicist",
"wplink": "Hendrik Lorentz"
},
"expansion": "named after Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz",
"name": "named-after"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From its appearance in Lorentzian electrodynamics, named after Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "Lorentz factor (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Physical quantities",
"orig": "en:Physical quantities",
"parents": [
"Physics",
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Physics",
"orig": "en:Physics",
"parents": [
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Relativity",
"orig": "en:Relativity",
"parents": [
"Physics",
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"a factor arising frequently in special relativity, to calculate the degree of time dilation, length contraction and relativistic mass of an object moving relative to an observer, defined as (1-v²/c²)^(-0.5), where v and c are relative velocity and the speed of light, respectively"
],
"id": "en-Lorentz_factor-en-noun-CFIZRyfr",
"links": [
[
"physics",
"physics"
],
[
"special relativity",
"special relativity"
],
[
"calculate",
"calculate"
],
[
"time dilation",
"time dilation"
],
[
"length contraction",
"Lorentz contraction"
],
[
"relativistic mass",
"relativistic mass"
],
[
"moving",
"moving"
],
[
"relative",
"relative"
],
[
"observer",
"observer"
],
[
"speed of light",
"speed of light"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(physics) a factor arising frequently in special relativity, to calculate the degree of time dilation, length contraction and relativistic mass of an object moving relative to an observer, defined as (1-v²/c²)^(-0.5), where v and c are relative velocity and the speed of light, respectively"
],
"related": [
{
"word": "speed parameter"
}
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"physics"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Lorentz factor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Lorentzfaktor"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "Lorentz factor",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "Lorentzfaktor"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Lorentz factor"
]
}
],
"word": "Lorentz factor"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "physicist",
"2": "",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": ""
},
"expansion": "physicist",
"name": "named-after/list"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "|",
"name": "!"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Hendrik Lorentz"
},
"expansion": "Hendrik Lorentz",
"name": "lang"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Hendrik Lorentz",
"nat": "Dutch",
"nocap": "1",
"occ": "physicist",
"wplink": "Hendrik Lorentz"
},
"expansion": "named after Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz",
"name": "named-after"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From its appearance in Lorentzian electrodynamics, named after Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "Lorentz factor (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "speed parameter"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English eponyms",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"en:Physical quantities",
"en:Physics",
"en:Relativity"
],
"glosses": [
"a factor arising frequently in special relativity, to calculate the degree of time dilation, length contraction and relativistic mass of an object moving relative to an observer, defined as (1-v²/c²)^(-0.5), where v and c are relative velocity and the speed of light, respectively"
],
"links": [
[
"physics",
"physics"
],
[
"special relativity",
"special relativity"
],
[
"calculate",
"calculate"
],
[
"time dilation",
"time dilation"
],
[
"length contraction",
"Lorentz contraction"
],
[
"relativistic mass",
"relativistic mass"
],
[
"moving",
"moving"
],
[
"relative",
"relative"
],
[
"observer",
"observer"
],
[
"speed of light",
"speed of light"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(physics) a factor arising frequently in special relativity, to calculate the degree of time dilation, length contraction and relativistic mass of an object moving relative to an observer, defined as (1-v²/c²)^(-0.5), where v and c are relative velocity and the speed of light, respectively"
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"physics"
],
"wikipedia": [
"Lorentz factor"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Lorentz factor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Lorentzfaktor"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "Lorentz factor",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "Lorentzfaktor"
}
],
"word": "Lorentz factor"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Lorentz factor meaning in English (2.5kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-10-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (eaa6b66 and a709d4b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.