Meaning of E=mc² | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A formulation or realization that captures a profound thought in simple terms.
   idiomatic, informal, uncountable
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: E = mc²: energy equals mass times the speed of light's square.
   uncountable

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Examples

“"Beauty isn't about looking young." OK, so it's not E=mc² or even [Isaac] Newton's apple. But coming as it does from a top cosmetics company, it does represent⟳ an attitude readjustment that makes Saul's change⟳ of heart on the road to Damascus look⟳ like⟳ a passing fancy.”

“What counted most through the generations, far more than any other factor, regardless of our race⟳, was how we treated those we loved and how well we loved. That seemed the transcendent lesson or moral that my search⟳ had revealed. And it held true whether the figure⟳ was my mother or Fredda on one side of our family tree, or Rita or Anna Beaumont on the other. Simple as it was, it was my E = mc².”

“What Jacques Derrida is to literature, [Mark⟳] Loizeaux is to [building] demolition: He's the philosopher king of demolition. […] Loizeaux's battle plan⟳ remains formidably elegant, the E = MC² of demolition.”

“If conditioned arising was the e = mc² of Gotama [i.e., Siddhartha Gautama]'s vision, the eightfold path was his first move⟳ in translating that axiom from an abstract principle into a civilizing force⟳.”

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