Glossary of Special Relativistic Terms

Hitting any of the following takes you to the place on this site where the entity is defined and described.

• 4-vector
• event
• [globally|locally] [inertial] frame
• hypercube
• [future/past] lightcone
• Lorentz boost
• Lorentz gamma factor
• Lorentz transformation; mathematical form of the Lorentz transformation
• simultaneity
• spacetime diagram
• spacetime separation
• worldline

Updated 26 Apr 1998