antimatter

See also: anti-matter

English

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.

Alternative forms

• anti-matter

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæntimæˌtɚ/, /ˈæn.taɪ.mæˌtɚ/

Noun

antimatter (usually uncountable, plural antimatters)

1. (physics) Matter that is composed of the antiparticles of those that constitute normal matter.
2. (physics) A form of matter that has a key property, such as charge, opposite to that of ordinary matter.

Derived terms

• antimatter rocket

Translations

matter composed of antiparticles

• Arabic: مَادَّة مُضَادَّة f (mādda muḍādda)
• Catalan: antimatèria f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 反物質／反物质 (faan² mat⁶ zat¹), 反物质 (faan² mat⁶ zat¹)

  Mandarin: 反物質／反物质 (zh) (fǎnwùzhì), 反物质 (zh) (fǎnwùzhì)

• Czech: antihmota f
• Danish: antistof n
• Dutch: antimaterie (nl) f
• Esperanto: malmaterio
• Finnish: antimateria (fi), antiaine (fi)
• French: antimatière (fr) f
• German: Antimaterie (de) f
• Greek: αντιύλη (el) f (antiýli)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: antianyag (hu)
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• Icelandic: andefni (is) n
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 反物質 (はんぶっしつ, hanbusshitsu)
• Korean: 반물질 (ko) (banmuljil) (反物質 (ko))
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: antymateria (pl) f
• Portuguese: antimatéria f
• Romanian: antimaterie (ro) f
• Russian: антивещество́ (ru) n (antiveščestvó), антимате́рия (ru) f (antimatérija)
• Serbo-Croatian: antimaterija (sh) f
• Spanish: antimateria (es) f
• Swedish: antimateria (sv) c
• Tagalog: labambutang
• Thai: ปฏิสสาร (bpà-dtì- sà-săan)
• Vietnamese: phản vật chất (反物質)