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antiworld

American  
[an-tee-wurld, an-tahy-] / ˈæn tiˌwɜrld, ˈæn taɪ- /

noun

  1. Physics. Often anti-worlds. a hypothetical world composed of antimatter.


antiworld British  
/ ˈæntɪˌwɜːld /

noun

  1. a hypothetical or supposed world or universe composed of antimatter

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Etymology

Origin of antiworld

anti- + world

Example Sentences

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Further study of this force should reveal just how precisely the antiworld duplicates the world.

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The conjectural game tangles the mind in difficulties antiworld speculations on the classics that an infinite number of monkeys might have composed on an infinite number of type writers.

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California, he was implying, is the name we give our hopes and highest fantasies: an antiworld of sorts, governed by an antireality principle and driven by an antigravitational push.

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In the antiworld of the so-called anti-novelists of France, the characters often seem to grope toward each other like blind men buffeted in a high wind.

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An intellectual antiworld: the big surrogate instructing the little surrogates.

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