"antimatter" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈæn.tiˌmæt.ɚ/ [General-American], /ˈænˌtaɪˌmæt.ɚ/ [General-American], [ˈæn.tiˌmæ.ɾɚ] [General-American], [ˈæ.ɾ̃iˌmæ.ɾɚ] [General-American], [ˈæ.niˌmæ.ɾɚ] [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-antimatter.wav Forms: antimatters [plural]
Etymology: From anti- + matter. Coined by British physicist Arthur Schuster in 1898 to describe matter that resists gravity in a jocular article in Nature titled "Potential Matter.—A Holiday Dream", but not used in a modern sense until the 1940s. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|anti|matter}} anti- + matter, {{coin|en|Arthur Schuster|in=1898|nat=British|nobycat=1|occ=physicist}} Coined by British physicist Arthur Schuster in 1898 Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} antimatter (usually uncountable, plural antimatters)
  1. (physics) Matter that is composed of the antiparticles of those that constitute normal matter. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Physics, Antimatter Translations (matter composed of antiparticles): مَادَّة مُضَادَّة (mādda muḍādda) [feminine] (Arabic), антырэ́чыва (antyréčyva) [neuter] (Belarusian), антыматэ́рыя (antymatéryja) [feminine] (Belarusian), antimatèria [feminine] (Catalan), 反物質 (Chinese Cantonese), 反物质 (faan² mat⁶ zat¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 反物質 (Chinese Mandarin), 反物质 (fǎnwùzhì) (Chinese Mandarin), antihmota [feminine] (Czech), antistof [neuter] (Danish), antimaterie [feminine] (Dutch), antimaterio (Esperanto), malmaterio (Esperanto), antimateria (Finnish), antiaine (Finnish), antimatière [feminine] (French), Antimaterie [feminine] (German), αντιύλη (antiýli) [feminine] (Greek), प्रतिद्रव्य (pratidravya) (Hindi), antianyag (Hungarian), andefni [neuter] (Icelandic), frithdhamhna [masculine] (Irish), antimateria [feminine] (Italian), 反物質 (hanbusshitsu) (alt: はんぶっしつ) (Japanese), антизат (antizat) (Kazakh), 반물질 (banmuljil) (alt: 反物質) (Korean), антиматтер (antimatter) [Cyrillic] (Mongolian), эсрэг бодис (esreg bodis) [Cyrillic] (Mongolian), antymateria [feminine] (Polish), antimatéria [feminine] (Portuguese), antimaterie [feminine] (Romanian), антивещество́ (antiveščestvó) [neuter] (Russian), антимате́рия (antimatérija) [feminine] (Russian), antimaterija [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), antimateria [feminine] (Spanish), antimateria [common-gender] (Swedish), labambutang (Tagalog), ปฏิสสาร (bpà-dtì-sà-săan) (Thai), phản vật chất (alt: 反物質) (Vietnamese), gwrthfater [masculine] (Welsh)
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  2. (physics) A form of matter that has a key property, such as charge, opposite to that of ordinary matter. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Physics
    Sense id: en-antimatter-en-noun-gpIEQjjZ Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: anti-matter Derived forms: antimatter rocket Related terms: antiparticle

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