superluminal
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of superluminal
First recorded in 1955–60; super- + Latin lūmin-, stem of lūmen “light, rays of light, radiance” + -al 1
Example Sentences
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Importantly, giving it up doesn’t cause a theory to fall afoul of Einstein’s theories of relativity, much like physicists have argued that Bell nonlocality doesn’t require superluminal or nonlocal causal influences but merely nonseparable states.
From Scientific American • May 22, 2023
The news cycle has sped up to superluminal velocity.
From Washington Post • May 10, 2017
“A group from the H.W. Wills Physics Laboratory in Bristol and the Indian Institute of Technology wondered, “‘Can apparent superluminal neutrino speeds be explained as a quantum weak measurement?’
From Scientific American • Feb. 1, 2014
After eons of superluminal ecstasy, I decided that I wanted not pleasure but knowledge.
From Scientific American • Nov. 27, 2012
This was, of course, disturbing to Einstein, whose theory of relativity prohibited any such superluminal propagation.
From Scientific American • Jan. 30, 2012
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