anticharm

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noun

The opposite of charm, or of charm as usually understood.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounanticharm (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe opposite of charm, or of charm as usually understood.

    And yet, just as it made FunHouse look daring, that peculiar Bogosian anticharm managed to turn Talk Radio into an intriguingly nasty, itchy piece of work.

    1989 September 29, Anthony Adler, “Talk Radio”, in Chicago Reader
adjectiveanticharm (comparative more anticharm, superlative most anticharm)

comparative more anticharm · superlative most anticharm

  1. natural sciencesOf or pertaining to an anti-charm quark.

    Similarly, any charm quarks produced in the collision have many more partners to choose from; they don't have to run away with an anticharm partner, which causes the number of J/psi mesons to drop. "

    1999 August 20, David Voss, “PHYSICS:Making the Stuff of the Big Bang”, in Science, volume 285, number 5431, →DOI, pages 1194–1197

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Translations

Portuguese anticharme
  • anticharmelack of charm

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APA

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Chicago

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