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Eötvös experiment

[ uht-vuhsh, et-; Hungarian œt-vœsh ]

noun

, Physics.
  1. an experiment to confirm that all materials respond equally to gravity and that gravitational mass and inertial mass are equivalent.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Eötvös experiment1

Named after Roland Eötvös (1848–1919), Hungarian physicist, who first performed the experiment

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