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English noun: Michelson-Morley experiment

1. Michelson-Morley experiment (act) 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


Broader (hypernym)experiment, experimentation









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