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weakly interacting massive particle

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.98 in modern English

Syllables
weak-ly in-ter-act-ing -mas-sive -par-ti-cle
IPA
54
Scrabble Score
32
Letters
10
Syllables
16
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A hypothetical class of particle, proposed to explain the dark matter problem.

Inflected Forms

weakly interacting massive particles (plural)

Derived Forms

WIMP WIMPzilla

Frequently Paired Words

strongly interacting massive particle robust associations of massive baryonic objects massive compact halo object

Synonyms

WIMP

Questions

What does weakly interacting massive particle mean?
A hypothetical class of particle, proposed to explain the dark matter problem.

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