proto-matter

A form of protomatter — The ultimate basis of physical substance, before it has been given form.

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Meanings

nounproto-matter (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of protomatter.

    The above is not to imply that Dialectical Materialism fails to see any rationale in the concept of proto-matter.

    1975, F.J. Adelmann, Philosophical Investigations in the U.S.S.R, page 5
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    To compensate, my hand wove a defensive echelon, drawing proto-matter from the vcast generator to create a floating shield.

    2015, Eric Dallaire, Shades: The Gehenna Dilemma, →ISBN

    Perhaps some time before the Big Bang, some kind of proto-matter and anti-proto-matter fleetingly came into being (at the left hand side of the diagram) and then self-annihilated in a series of proto-universes.

    2016, Michael Kean, The Emergent Method, →ISBN

    This work may have required them to do this numerous times, and each time they carried with them an increment of the proto-matter universe located at the periphery of the material realm to the center of the mystical realm.

    2017, Jack Hetrick, The Creation: Its Infinite Features and Finite Realms, →ISBN
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