contraterrene

Meaning

Adjective

Not terrestrial.
Of or pertaining to antimatter.

Origin

contra- + terrene
Physics meaning from physicist Dirac's notion that an ordinary electron “rests” on the Dirac sea (terrene) whereas a positron exists as a “hole” in that sea (contra-terrene).

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