time dilation.

A relativistic difference in elapsed time associated with relative motion or gravitational conditions.

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Words that belong together

• gravitational time dilation
• relativistic time dilation

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Time dilation left the travelers younger than those who had remained.

They corrected the clocks for gravitational time dilation.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.