worldsheet

English

Etymology

From world +‎ sheet.

Noun

worldsheet (plural worldsheets)

  1. (physics) A two-dimensional manifold which describes the embedding of a string in spacetime, a direct generalization of the worldline of a particle in special and general relativity.

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