Definition of "nonrelativistic" [nonrelativistic]

• Not relativistic; classical, Newtonian (adjective)

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• "If you want to include the time prior to the formation of the solar system you will have to tack on a few billion years that had been quite uneventful and still rather nonrelativistic."
• "See p. 496, where this procedure is implemented for the case of a nonrelativistic pointlike particle."
• "Instead, he applies the standard quantization procedure to twistor theory, the same canonical quantization that has been previously applied to nonrelativistic particles, spin, Maxwell's electromagnetic field and strings."