reannihilation

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

re- +‎ annihilation

Noun[edit]

reannihilation (uncountable)

  1. A second or subsequent annihilation.
    • 1989, David Stern, Nightmare World:
      Engaging the IO initiated an instantaneous annihilation/ reannihilation of every particle of matter on the ship — effectively cancelling the passage of time outside the ship's frame of reference.
    • 2015, Nicolas Bernal, Xiaoyong Chu, Camilo Garcia-Cely, Thomas Hambye, Bryan Zaldivar, “Production Regimes for Self-Interacting Dark Matter”, in arXiv[1]:
      We discuss one by one the following various dark matter production regimes of this kind: freeze-in, reannihilation and dark freeze-out.