Dunkle Materie
German
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Dunkle (“dark”) + Materie (“matter”). Coined by Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky in German in 1933, to account for the apparent mass needed to account for galaxy clusters, where the mass of luminous matter did not add up to enough of a gravitational effect, inferring nonluminous matter must exist to account for the missing mass.
Noun
Dunkle Materie f (genitive Dunklen Materie, no plural)
- (astrophysics, cosmology) dark matter
Declension
Inflection of Dunkle Materie
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| f gender | strong declension | |||
| nominative | Dunkle Materie | Dunkle Materien | ||
| genitive | Dunkler Materie | Dunkler Materien | ||
| dative | Dunkler Materie | Dunklen Materien | ||
| accusative | Dunkle Materie | Dunkle Materien | ||
| weak declension | ||||
| nominative | die | Dunkle Materie | die | Dunklen Materien |
| genitive | der | Dunklen Materie | der | Dunklen Materien |
| dative | der | Dunklen Materie | den | Dunklen Materien |
| accusative | die | Dunkle Materie | die | Dunklen Materien |
| mixed declension | ||||
| nominative | eine | Dunkle Materie | keine | Dunklen Materien |
| genitive | einer | Dunklen Materie | keiner | Dunklen Materien |
| dative | einer | Dunklen Materie | keinen | Dunklen Materien |
| accusative | eine | Dunkle Materie | keine | Dunklen Materien |
Descendants
- English: dark matter