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antimatter
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Wiktionary
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n. 1 (context physics English) matter that is composed of the antiparticles of those that constitute normal matter. 2 (context physics English) A form of matter that has a key property, such as charge, opposite to that of ordinary matter.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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also anti-matter , 1953, from anti- + matter (n.).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But the device can also accelerate antiprotons, the antimatter equivalents of protons with the same mass but negative electric charge. ▪ Earlier we talked about antimatter - particles which have all their physical characteristics ...
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WordNet
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n. matter consisting of elementary particles that are the antiparticles of those making up normal matter
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He passed up through the engine-core space, past endless kilometers of fuel cells, the horizonless geometry of antimatter globes of frozen metallic hydrogen, and past the ring on ring and bastion on bastion of thought-boxes and ship-brains englobing the living quarters.
Parma was defeated with the use of antimatter weapons, its remaining industrial stations being confiscated in reparation, and Jerez became a principality awarded to Cheloe herself.
The Phoenix Exultant carried factories for the nucleogenesis of antimatter, in volume and output as large as any dozen of the antimatter-production facilities orbiting near Mercury Equilateral.
Finally, last month, Omuta had used an antimatter bomb against an industrial asteroid settlement in the Garissa system.
Garissa genocide, when Omuta launched a series of antimatter planetbusters at Garissa.
In addition to the usual system of Diracs for the production of the force field, the Cyclops was equipped with an antimatter projectile cannon, which enabled it to shoot off antiprotons simultaneously in any and all directions.
HVM shot and a one-legged support troop, wearing a bulbous suit of armor that made him look like the Michelin Man, were crawling along a shallow trench from position to position, feeding power to the suits from the surviving antimatter power packs.
Intellectual miracles like antimatter arrive in this world with no ethical instructions attached.
And he apparently got the specs for the Supergun so what he went and built was an antimatter cluster bomb .
But we thought it wise to assume it used the only fuel we knew of that made entry into transdimensional space possible: antimatter.
Meanwhile, the infidel battle-line was keeping scrupulously out of laser range and continuing the long-range capital missile duel in which their antimatter warheads nearly canceled out his own more numerous launchers.
The infidels were employing only nuclear warheads, without the antimatter explosions the defenders had dreaded.
But CERN has now broken ground on its new Antiproton Decelerator-an advanced antimatter production facility that promises to create antimatter in much larger quantities.
A photon drive, also, required the ship to be loaded with millions of tons of matter and antimatter as its annihilative fuel.