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antiblue

antiblue adjective: describing one of the three possible colours of an antiquark, corresponding to blue in a quark.

Adjective

antiblue (comparative more antiblue, superlative most antiblue)

  1. (not comparable, particle) Describing one of the three possible colours of an antiquark, corresponding to blue in a quark.
    • For example, the tetraquark can split up into a red antired meson and a blue antiblue meson.2016, Gavin Hesketh, The Particle Zoo
  2. (US, colloquial) Antipolice.
    • Anyone who allowed banned activities to take place on his owned or rented property faced police citations and fines. It took only two years, however, for anti-blue law sentiment to arise, and various exceptions to the original ordinance were passed […]2003, Fred Miller, Ocean City
    • Time Warner […] was also home to Ice-T, whose “Cop Killer” was pointedly and recklessly antiblue in the wake of the 1992 L.A. riots, even if the track had been intended as a statement against police brutality—a generation before the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties

Forms of antiblue

comparativemore antiblue
superlativemost antiblue

Origin of antiblue

From anti- + blue.

Questions about antiblue

What does antiblue mean?
Antiblue means describing one of the three possible colours of an antiquark, corresponding to blue in a quark.
What part of speech is antiblue?
Antiblue is an adjective.

Words near antiblue in the dictionary

  1. antiblockage
  2. antiblocker
  3. antiblockers
  4. antiblocking
  5. antiblooming
  6. antiblue
  7. antiblush
  8. antiblushing
  9. antiboarding
  10. antibodies
  11. antibody

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