1834, "fact or condition of being relative" (apparently coined by Coleridge, of God, in "Notes on Waterland's Vindication of Christ's Divinity"), from relative (adj.) + -ity. In scientific use, connected to the theory of Albert Einstein (1879-1955), published 1905 (special theory of relativity) and 1915 (general theory of relativity), but the word was used in roughly this sense by J.C. Maxwell in 1876.
实用例句
1. Einstein formulated the Theory of Relativity in 1905.
爱因斯坦于1905年创立了相对论。
来自柯林斯例句
2. According to the theory of relativity, nothing can travel faster than light.
根据相对论，任何东西都无法超越光速。
来自《权威词典》
3. Einstein's theory of relativity won for him universal esteem.
爱因斯坦的相对论赢得了全世界对他的崇敬.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
4. Finally they accepted Einstein's relativity.
他们终于接受了爱因斯坦的相对论.
来自《简明英汉词典》
5. There is no relativity between the two matters.
