MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT

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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

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Hypernyms ("Michelson-Morley experiment" is a kind of...):

experiment; experimentation (the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation)

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