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contraterrene en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˌkɒntɹətəˈɹiːn/

Etymology

From contra- (“against”) + terrene.

Meanings

1. (in physics, not-comparable, obsolete) Made of or pertaining to antimatter.
   • Then I started jacking up the voltage, and modified the thing with a double-polarity field somewhat similar to the molecular motion field except that it works on a sub-nucleonic level. As a result, about half of the lead fed into the chamber became contraterrene lead! The atoms just turned themselves inside out, so to speak, giving us an atom with positrons circling a negatively charged nucleus. 1957, John W. Campbell, Islands of Space:
   • This means just one thing: the instant contraterrene matter struck ordinary matter, a terrific explosion would occur! 1952, Science Digest, volume 31, page 67:

Forms

Antonyms

terrene

Synonyms

seetee