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MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A celebrated experiment conducted by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley; their failure to detect any influence of the earth's motion on the velocity of light was the starting point for Einstein's theory of relativity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("Michelson-Morley experiment" is a kind of...):
experiment; experimentation (the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation)
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