"world line" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: world lines [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} world line (plural world lines)
  1. (physics) A path in spacetime, especially that traversed by an elementary particle from its creation to its destruction. Wikipedia link: world line Categories (topical): Physics, Relativity Translations (path in spacetime): 世界線 (Chinese Mandarin), 世界线 (shìjièxiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), ligne d’univers [feminine] (French), Weltlinie [feminine] (German), 世界線 (sekaisen) (Japanese)

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