teleparallelism

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Noun

1. {{lb|en|physics}} An early attempt at unifying [[electromagnetism]] and [[gravity]], according to which a [[spacetime]] is characterized by a curvature-free linear connection in conjunction with a metric tensor field, both defined in terms of a dynamical tetrad field.

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