antimatter

noun

an·​ti·​mat·​ter
ˈan-tē-ˌma-tər
ˈan-ˌtī- How to pronounce antimatter (audio)
: matter composed of antiparticles

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Scientists have also figured out that when the universe was born, there were almost equal amounts of matter and antimatter. Dipangkar Dutta, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025 And in fact, because matter and antimatter annihilate on contact, a perfectly balanced universe should have ended in a wash of pure energy. Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 4 Dec. 2025 There are all sorts of important symmetries, but if everything were completely symmetric, there would have been perfectly equal amounts of matter and antimatter. Big Think, 27 Nov. 2025 In this process, a top quark and its antimatter counterpart, an anti-top quark, are produced along with a Z boson. Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for antimatter

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1934, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of antimatter was in 1934

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antimatter

noun
an·​ti·​mat·​ter ˈant-i-ˌmat-ər How to pronounce antimatter (audio)
: matter whose parts match parts of ordinary matter except in having some opposite properties (as a positive instead of a negative charge)

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