proto-matter

English

Noun

proto-matter (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of protomatter
   • 1975, F.J. Adelmann, Philosophical Investigations in the U.S.S.R, page 5:

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

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

     To compensate, my hand wove a defensive echelon, drawing proto-matter from the vcast generator to create a floating shield.

   • 2016, Michael Kean, The Emergent Method, →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.

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