timelike
- Adjective. (mathematics, physics) Of a four-vector in representing a point in spacetime, having a positive four-vector norm.
- Adjective. (physics) (''of the interval between two events in spacetime'') Having overlapping light cones, so that information can pass from one to the other, and one can be envisaged as a cause of the other.
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