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Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction in British English
noun
noun: the supposed contraction of a body in the direction of its motion through the ether, postulated to explain the result of the Michelson-Morley experiment. The special theory of relativity denies that any such real change can occur in a body as a result of

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