dark matter
Matter which cannot be detected by its radiation but whose presence is inferred from…Matter which cannot be detected by its radiation but whose presence is inferred from gravitational effects.
» Dark matter is invisible.
Dunkle Materie ist unsichtbar.
Темная материя является невидимой.
Темна матерія невидима.
Meaning
3 senses(broadly, uncountable)Matter which cannot be detected by its radiation but whose presence is inferred from gravitational effects.
Dunkle Materie
тёмная мате́рияtjómnaja matérija, скры́тая ма́ссаskrýtaja mássa
тéмна матéріяtémna matérija
(particle, uncountable)Matter which has mass but which does not readily interact with normal matter except through gravitational effects.
(informal, uncountable)Unclassified or poorly understood genetic material.
- (cosmology) a hypothetical form of matter that is believed to make up 90 percent of the universe; it is invisible (does not absorb or emit light) and does not collide with atomic particles but exerts gravitational force
Examples
14 sentencesDark matter is invisible.
Темна матерія невидима.
ruТемная материя является невидимой.
deDunkle Materie ist unsichtbar.
Dark matter cannot be seen directly.
ruТёмную материю нельзя увидеть напрямую.
We don't know what dark matter is made of.
deWir wissen nicht, woraus die dunkle Materie besteht.
Scientists don't know what dark matter is made of.
deDie Wissenschaftler wissen nicht, woraus die dunkle Materie besteht.
What is dark matter?
Translations
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Origin
The term is often said to have been coined in 1933 by the Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky inThe term is often said to have been coined in 1933 by the Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky in German (as Dunkle Materie), but it had already been in use for decades, in French (matière obscure) by Henri Poincaré as early as 1906, and in English.
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Word family
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