contraterrene

1. (obsolete in physics, science fiction) Made of or pertaining to antimatter.Examples: "This means just one thing: the instant contraterrene matter struck ordinary matter, a terrific explosion would occur!"; "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."Synonyms: seeteeAntonyms: terrene