antimatter
意味
- 反物質(物質を構成する通常粒子と電荷が反対である粒子から成る物質)
例文
We don't know why there's more matter than antimatter.
反物質よりも物質が多く存在する理由は不明です。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
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.
辞書順で近い単語
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