Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A hypothetical form of matter that is identical to physical matter except that its atoms are composed of antielectrons, antiprotons, and antineutrons.
Wiktionary
- n. physics Matter that is composed of the antiparticles of those that constitute normal matter.
- n. physics A form of matter that has a key property, such as charge, opposite to that of ordinary matter.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Physics) Matter whch is composed of antiparticles such as antiprotons, positrons, and antineutrons.
WordNet 3.0
- n. matter consisting of elementary particles that are the antiparticles of those making up normal substances
Etymologies
- From anti- + matter. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“McGregor joins the Brown franchise as Camerlegno Carlo Ventresca, a papal aide that assists Langdon and Vetra in their search for the canister in which the antimatter is contained.”
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“Kobayashi and Maskawa hypothesized the existence of a third family of quarks, which are some of the building blocks from which all matter and antimatter is formed.”
“At the end of the story, the pope -- a religious fanatic -- dies, as does another character who proves to be a science fanatic, equally dangerous and more vicious besides, leaving open the question of whether harnessing antimatter is a good idea or not.”
“A long-term antimatter storage device that may be energized by a low power magnetron and can function autonomously for hundreds of hours on the energy provided by batteries.”
“It releases antimatter, which is then channeled down a tube and reacts with a gaseous matter target.”
“You know, he could take mathematics and make it fit into reality, and the same with, you know, Dirac, for example, with wedding quantum theory with Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity and then using it to predict antimatter, which is a fantastic prediction.”
“There's one on the International Space Station right now called the antimatter magnetic spectrometer.”
“One question is why the universe is dominated by matter rather than sharing the stage with so-called "antimatter.”
“Some kind of antimatter waste field is appearing in orbit, seemingly out of nowhere.”
“The island can’t be antimatter, that is if the laws of physics that we know still apply there!”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘antimatter’.
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science fact or fiction
pretty open-ended here—terms, ideas, lingo, technologies and phenomena (real or postulated) that are, were, should be or could be used in speculative fiction
tachyon, mecha, dropship, wetware, meatspace, nanobot, cloned meat, asteroid mining, hyperdrive, wormhole, parallel universe, distributed intel... and 464 more...
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Band or Brand?
Band names that are also common words or phrases.
genesis, who, beatles, journey, germs, sublime, doors, cars, nirvana, bangles, tool, pixies and 192 more...
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ghost
This is Ghost List 2 ( the kind that go 'boo!' ) :P
( open list )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/macabrephantom, spectral, specter, spectre, spooky, poltergeist, haunt, spirit, banshee, cryptic, shadow, phantasm and 311 more...
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anti-
against, hostile; operating against; preventing, curing, neutralizing
antilabor, antiballistic, antitoxin, antiperistalsis, antipope, antichrist, antithesis, anti-inflammatory, antimatter, antibiotic, antibody, anticlimax and 1 more...
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science (collective opinion)
random scientific terms from a group of one hundred 16-18 year olds to choose 100 words that, in their collective opinion, represent crucial factors and concepts influencing trends in science today...
acid, base, aggregation status, analysis, antimatter, apparatus, atmosphere, atom, bacteria, Big Bang, biodiversity, bioethics and 90 more...
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colleen's words ii
sibilant, sundry, spindle, distaff, device, mortar, pestle, scythe, flail, thresh, frown, elementary and 495 more...
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Hana's Vocab
ipseism, jape, raphe, mullions and tran..., Olbers' Paradox, Euclidian torus, relativity of sim..., Cerenkov radiation, tachyon, superluminal, hapax legomenon, damascene and 314 more...
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Bands that are words...
Those I like and those that are NOT phrases e.g. Air would count but Arcade Fire would not, even if I like both. Also specific groups of words are included such as Iron Maiden (a specific thing) vs...
air, iron maiden, kraftwerk, stereolab, pelican, isis, emperor, enslaved, beefcake, squarepusher, clutch, carcass and 34 more...
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She Blinded Me With Pseudoscience
With enough jargon and statistics, hucksters can make you believe anything. He may be wearing a lab coat, but he ain't your friend.
cryptozoology, ufology, power crystals, reflexology, hypnotherapy, perpetual motion ..., chiropractic, the force, telepathy, telekinesis, paranormal invest..., phrenology and 39 more...
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physics words
strangeness, quark, neutrino, uncertainty, meson, antimatter, accelerator, entropy, excitation, ohm, volt, amp and 24 more...
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words... of the FUTURE
robot, automaton, dirigible, nebula, pangalactic, starscape, terran, photon, graviton, superstring, beep, dome and 54 more...
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Daydream Believer
Concepts that are just fun to think about. I could spend hours musing over this stuff, but I'm just weird that way.
time travel, butterfly effect, brain in a vat, solipsism, cryonics, rube goldberg, cloning, teleportation, antikythera mecha..., mind transfer, robot rights, quantum computing and 15 more...
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siguy's Words
cacophony, supercilious, superfluous, belligerent, disambiguation, sanguine, syncopated, pulchritude, arbritrarily, sinister, overlord, embellish and 40 more...
Tweets
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