Dunkle Materie
German edit
Etymology edit
From dunkle (“dark”) + Materie (“matter”). Coined by Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky 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.
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
Dunkle Materie f (definite nominative die Dunkle Materie, genitive Dunkler Materie, definite genitive der Dunklen Materie, no plural)
Declension edit
Declension of Dunkle Materie [sg-only, feminine]
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| feminine gender | strong declension | |
| nominative | Dunkle Materie | |
| genitive | Dunkler Materie | |
| dative | Dunkler Materie | |
| accusative | Dunkle Materie | |
| weak declension | ||
| nominative | die | Dunkle Materie |
| genitive | der | Dunklen Materie |
| dative | der | Dunklen Materie |
| accusative | die | Dunkle Materie |
| mixed declension | ||
| nominative | eine | Dunkle Materie |
| genitive | einer | Dunklen Materie |
| dative | einer | Dunklen Materie |
| accusative | eine | Dunkle Materie |
Descendants edit
- → English: dark matter (calque)