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matter

English

Etymology

From Middle English matere, mater, from Anglo-Norman matere, materie, from Old French materie, matiere, from Latin materia (matter, stuff, material), derivative of Latin mater (mother). Doublet of Madeira.

Displaced native Middle English andweorc, andwork (material, matter) (from Old English andweorc (matter, substance, material)), Old English intinga (matter, affair, business).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?mæt?/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?mæt?/, [?mæ??]
    • Homophone: madder
  • Rhymes: -æt?(?)
  • Hyphenation: mat?ter

Noun

matter (countable and uncountable, plural matters)

  1. Substance, material.
    1. (physics) The basic structural component of the universe. Matter usually has mass and volume.
    2. (physics) Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles.
      Antonym: antimatter
    3. A kind of substance.
    4. Printed material, especially in books or magazines.
    5. (philosophy) Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substance.
  2. A condition, subject or affair, especially one of concern.
    • 1597, Francis Bacon, Of the Colours of Good and Evil
      if the matter should be tried by duel
    • 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
      The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
  3. An approximate amount or extent.
  4. (obsolete) The essence; the pith; the embodiment.
    • 1611, Ben Jonson, Oberon, the Faery Prince
      He is the matter of virtue.
  5. (obsolete) Inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing.
  6. (dated) Pus.

Synonyms

  • material
  • stuff
  • substance

Derived terms

Related terms

  • dark matter

Translations

Verb

matter (third-person singular simple present matters, present participle mattering, simple past and past participle mattered)

  1. (intransitive) To be important. [from 16th c.]
  2. (transitive, in negative constructions, now England regional, Caribbean) To care about, to mind; to find important. [from 17th c.]
    • , Folio Society 1973, p.47:
      Besides, if it had been out of doors I had not mattered it so much; but with my own servant, in my own house, under my own roof []
    • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 56:
      He matter'd not that, he said; coy maids made the fondest wives […].
  3. (intransitive, medicine, archaic) To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.
    • Each slight sore mattereth.

Derived terms

  • it doesn't matter
  • no matter (in spite of)

Synonyms

  • (be important): signify

Translations


French

Verb

matter

  1. Alternative spelling of mater

Conjugation

Anagrams

  • mettra

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?mat?/

Adjective

matter

  1. comparative degree of matt
  2. inflection of matt:
    1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
    2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
    3. strong genitive plural

Middle French

Alternative forms

  • mater

Verb

matter

  1. to checkmate

Conjugation

  • Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

matter m pl or f pl

  1. indefinite plural of matte (Etymology 1)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

matter f pl

  1. indefinite plural of matte (Etymology 1)

matter From the web:

  • what matters
  • what matters in life
  • what matters most in life
  • what matters to you
  • what matter is fire
  • what matters most to you


molecular

English

Etymology

molecule +? -ar

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /m??l?kj?l?/
  • (US) IPA(key): /m??l?kj?l??/

Adjective

molecular (not comparable)

  1. (chemistry) Relating to, or consisting of, or produced by molecules.
  2. (chemistry) (of an element) Combined with itself and with no other element; elemental.
  3. Relating to a simple or basic structure or organization.
  4. (food) Relating to molecular gastronomy.
    molecular dishes

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

molecular (plural moleculars)

  1. (chemistry) Any compound having a specified (range of) molecular weight(s)

Catalan

Etymology

molècula +? -ar

Adjective

molecular (masculine and feminine plural moleculars)

  1. molecular

Further reading

  • “molecular” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “molecular” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
  • “molecular” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “molecular” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

molécula +? -ar

Adjective

molecular m or f (plural moleculares)

  1. molecular

Further reading

  • “molecular” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Interlingua

Adjective

molecular (not comparable)

  1. molecular

Portuguese

Etymology

molécula +? -ar

Adjective

molecular m or f (plural moleculares, comparable)

  1. (chemistry) molecular (relating to molecules)

Further reading

  • “molecular” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From French moléculaire

Adjective

molecular m or n (feminine singular molecular?, masculine plural moleculari, feminine and neuter plural moleculare)

  1. molecular

Declension


Spanish

Etymology

molécula +? -ar

Adjective

molecular (plural moleculares)

  1. molecular

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “molecular” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

molecular From the web:

  • what molecular shape is h2o
  • what molecular shapes are always polar
  • what molecular shape is co2
  • what molecular shape is ch4
  • what molecular shape is nh3
  • what molecular geometries are polar
  • what molecular geometry is always polar
  • what molecular shape is water
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