See Also: FitzGerald(dictionary)
Fitzgerald factor(medicine)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott(dictionary)
FitzGerald, Edward(encyclopedia)
Fitzgerald, Ella(encyclopedia)
Fitzgerald, Ella(dictionary)
Fitzgerald (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald(dictionary)
Lorentz-FitzGerald contraction(encyclopedia)
Fitzgerald, F(rancis) Scott (Key)(encyclopedia)

FitzGerald (iou)



FitzGerald adjective. E20.
[G. F. FitzGerald (1851-1901), Irish physicist.]
Science. FitzGerald contraction, FitzGerald effect, FitzGerald-Lorentz contraction, FitzGerald-Lorentz effect [LORENTZ], the relativistic foreshortening, in the direction of motion, of a body moving relative to the observer.