English Dictionary

matter

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈmætə/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 廃用 古風

(physics) The basic structural component of the universe. Matter usually has mass and volume. / (physics) Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles. / A kind of substance.

日本語の意味

宇宙の基本構成要素となる物質であり、多くの場合、質量と体積を持つ。 / 通常の粒子から構成される物質（反粒子ではない）。 / 一種の物質、つまり特定のタイプの実体。

The laboratory experiment examined how matter behaves under extreme pressure.

実験室で行われた実験は、極端な圧力下で物質がどのように振る舞うかを調べた。

意味（1）

(physics) The basic structural component of the universe. Matter usually has mass and volume.

意味（2）

(physics) Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles.

意味（3）

A kind of substance.

vegetable matter

意味（4）

Printed material, especially in books or magazines.

He always took some reading matter with him on the plane.

意味（5）

(philosophy) Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substance.

意味（6）

An affair, condition, or subject, especially one of concern or (especially when preceded by the) one that is problematic.

Is much the matter with the old plan?

意味（7）

An approximate amount or extent.

I stayed for a matter of months.

意味（8）

(obsolete) The essence; the pith; the embodiment.

He is the matter of virtue.

意味（9）

(obsolete) Inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing.

And this is the matter why interpreters upon that passage in Hosea will not consent it to be a true story, that the prophet took a harlot to wife.

意味（10）

(dated, medicine) Pus.

matters （ plural ）