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EINSTEIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
Example:
he's smart but he's no Einstein
Synonyms:
brain; brainiac; Einstein; genius; mastermind
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Einstein" is a kind of...):
intellect; intellectual (a person who uses the mind creatively)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Einstein"):
prodigy (an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Physicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity; Einstein also proposed that light consists of discrete quantized bundles of energy (later called photons) (1879-1955)
Synonyms:
Albert Einstein; Einstein
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
physicist (a scientist trained in physics)
Derivation:
Einsteinian (of or relating to Albert Einstein or his theories)
Context examples:
Albert Einstein College of Medicine microbiologist William Jacobs and colleagues previously discovered by accident that antioxidants like vitamin C stopped TB bacteria in a test tube from becoming persisters.
(Vitamin C Might Shorten Tuberculosis Treatment Time, Study Indicates, VOA/Steve Baragona)
So far, DES has found no evidence that the amount of dark energy has changed over time — a finding that is consistent with Albert Einstein's idea of a "cosmological constant."
(New Clues to Universe's Structure Revealed, NASA)
Simulations and movies like these really help us visualize what Einstein meant when he said that gravity warps the fabric of space and time,” explains Jeremy Schnittman, who generated these gorgeous images using custom software at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.###!!!###
(NASA Visualization Shows a Black Hole’s Warped World, NASA)
The empty space plays a primordial role in Einstein's equations as it operates in a quantity known as a "cosmological constant", and the resulting universe model depends on it.
(There May Be No Dark Matter, Dark Energy in Universe, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
During the final fraction of a second, the two black holes collide into each other at nearly one-half the speed of light and form a single more massive black hole, converting a portion of the combined black holes' mass to energy, according to Einstein's formula E=mc2.
(Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein's Prediction, NASA)
According to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, the rate of expansion is determined by the properties of dark energy plus the amount of matter in the Universe, where the latter is mostly made up of unseen material called dark matter.
("Russian Doll" Galaxy Clusters Reveal Information About Dark Energy, NASA)
The disk is so deeply embedded in the black hole's intense gravitational field that the light from the gas disk is modified, according to Einstein’s theories of relativity, giving astronomers a unique look at the dynamic processes close to a black hole.
(Hubble Uncovers Black Hole Disk that Shouldn't Exist, NASA)
Glowing gas on the left side of the disk moves toward us so fast that the effects of Einstein’s relativity give it a boost in brightness; the opposite happens on the right side, where gas moving away us becomes slightly dimmer.
(NASA Visualization Shows a Black Hole’s Warped World, NASA)
The goal of the Albert Einstein Cancer Center is to foster basic, clinical, population- based, and translational research in an effort to understand better the origins of cancer and its effective prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.
(Albert Einstein Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)
