| 单词 | action at a distance |
| 释义 | > as lemmasaction at a distance action at a distance n. Physics the action of one object on another regardless of the presence or absence of an intervening medium, as in the Newtonian concept of gravitation and classical magnetism; influence without a physical intermediary; = actio in distans n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > [noun] > exertion of force from a distance action at a distance1662 actio in distans1717 1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness iii. vi. 71 The Rayes of things, burning out from all Bodies that act at a distance.] 1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike lxxxiii. 614 That cannot but be done by an action at a distance: To wit, if the Wine be troubled in a Cellar under ground, whereunto no Vine perhaps is near for some Miles, neither is there any discourse of the air under the Earth with the Flower of the absent Vine. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature IV. 90 Material action, at a distance, is repugnant to reason. 1834 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 124 237 (heading) Laws of electrical action at a distance. 1838 M. Faraday in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 128 3 That would be a natural result of the action of contiguous particles, but I think utterly incompatible with action at a distance, as assumed by received theories. 1969 Physical Rev. 177 2051/2 The equations of motion were expressible in terms of retarded action at a distance. 2001 Science 14 Sept. 2026/3 The most famous incarnation of entanglement is Einstein's ‘spooky action at a distance’, in which, if one entangled atom is poked, its entangled twin feels the prod, even if it's halfway across the universe. < as lemmas |
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