lente gravitacional

//ˈlẽ.tɨ ɡɾɐ.vi.tɐ.sjuˈnal/ [ˈlẽ.tɨ ɣɾɐ.vi.tɐ.sjuˈnaɫ]/ phrase

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Portuguese

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lente gravitacional is aPortuguesephrase. It means: fenômeno de distorção do espaço-tempo causado pela alta gravidade de corpos celestes com grande massa (estrelas, buracos negros, aglomerados de estrelas, galáxias, aglomerados de galáxias, etc.), p... Pronounced /ˈlẽ.tɨ ɡɾɐ.vi.tɐ.sjuˈnal/ [ˈlẽ.tɨ ɣɾɐ.vi.tɐ.sjuˈnaɫ].

Key facts for lente gravitacional
PropertyValue
Headwordlente gravitacional
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPhrase
IPA/ˈlẽ.tɨ ɡɾɐ.vi.tɐ.sjuˈnal/ [ˈlẽ.tɨ ɣɾɐ.vi.tɐ.sjuˈnaɫ]
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

lente gravitacional is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

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Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for lente gravitacional is 19 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈlẽ.tɨ ɡɾɐ.vi.tɐ.sjuˈnal/ [ˈlẽ.tɨ ɣɾɐ.vi.tɐ.sjuˈnaɫ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "fenômeno de distorção do espaço-tempo causado pela alta gravidade de corpos celestes com grande massa (estrelas, buracos negros, aglomerados de estrelas, galáxias, aglomerados de galáxias, etc.), p...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for lente gravitacional in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is lente gravitacional, spelled L-E-N-T-E- -G-R-A-V-I-T-A-C-I-O-N-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    fenômeno de distorção do espaço-tempo causado pela alta gravidade de corpos celestes com grande massa (estrelas, buracos negros, aglomerados de estrelas, galáxias, aglomerados de galáxias, etc.), provocando o deslocamento aparente (e seu aumento, como uma lupa) de outro objeto posicionado imediatamente atrás (e que, portanto, deveria estar também eclipsado e não visível), previsto originalmente por Newton e calculado por Albert Einstein na sua teoria da relatividade foi comprovada inicialmente em 1919 durante um eclipse solar registrado em Sobral, no Ceará

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How do you spell "lente gravitacional"?
"lente gravitacional" is spelled L-E-N-T-E- -G-R-A-V-I-T-A-C-I-O-N-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈlẽ.tɨ ɡɾɐ.vi.tɐ.sjuˈnal/ [ˈlẽ.tɨ ɣɾɐ.vi.tɐ.sjuˈnaɫ].
What does "lente gravitacional" mean?
As a phrase, "lente gravitacional" means: fenômeno de distorção do espaço-tempo causado pela alta gravidade de corpos celestes com grande massa (estrelas, buracos negros, aglomerados de estrelas, galáxias, aglomerados de galáxias, etc.), p...
How do you pronounce "lente gravitacional"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "lente gravitacional" is /ˈlẽ.tɨ ɡɾɐ.vi.tɐ.sjuˈnal/ [ˈlẽ.tɨ ɣɾɐ.vi.tɐ.sjuˈnaɫ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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