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(physics) the principle that an observer has no way of distinguishing whether their laboratory is in a uniform gravitational field or is in an accelerated frame of reference

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  1. n. (physics) the principle that an observer has no way of distinguishing whether their laboratory is in a uniform gravitational field or is in an accelerated frame of reference