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Meaning of "panspermist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PANSPERMIST

panspermist  [pænˈspɜːmɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PANSPERMIST

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conjunction
determiner
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Panspermist is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PANSPERMIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Panspermia

Panspermia (Greek: πανσπερμία from πᾶς/πᾶν (pas/pan) "all" and σπέρμα (sperma) "seed") is the hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe, distributed by meteoroids, asteroids, comets, planetoids. and, perhaps most recently, by spacecraft, in the form of unintended contamination by microbes, like Tersicoccus phoenicis, that may be resistant to methods usually used in spacecraft assembly clean rooms. Panspermia is the proposal that microscopic life forms that can survive the effects of space, such as extremophiles, become trapped in debris that is ejected into space after collisions between planets and small Solar System bodies that harbor life. Some organisms may travel dormant for an extended amount of time before colliding randomly with other planets or intermingling with protoplanetary disks. If met with ideal conditions on a new planet's surfaces, the organisms become active and the process of evolution begins. Panspermia is not meant to address how life began, just the method that may cause its distribution in the universe.

Definition of panspermist in the English dictionary

The definition of panspermist in the dictionary is one who advocates panspermia.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PANSPERMIST


alarmist
əˈlɑːmɪst
alchemist
ˈælkəmɪst
chemist
ˈkɛmɪst
chloroformist
ˈklɔːrəˌfɔːmɪst
columnist
ˈkɒləmɪst
conformist
kənˈfɔːmɪst
economist
ɪˈkɒnəmɪst
exonumist
ˌɛksəʊˈnjuːmɪst
extremist
ɪkˈstriːmɪst
Islamist
ˈɪzləmɪst
mist
mɪst
nonconformist
ˌnɒnkənˈfɔːmɪst
optimist
ˈɒptɪmɪst
plumist
ˈpluːmɪst
promised
ˈprɒmɪst
psalmist
ˈsɑːmɪst
reformist
rɪˈfɔːmɪst
taxidermist
ˈtæksɪdɜːmɪst
timist
ˈtiːmɪst
transformist
trænsˈfɔːmɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PANSPERMIST

pansexual
pansexualism
pansexualist
pansexuality
pansied
pansies
pansophic
pansophical
pansophically
pansophism
pansophist
pansophy
panspermatism
panspermatist
panspermia
panspermic
panspermism
panspermy
pansy
pant

WORDS THAT END LIKE PANSPERMIST

agronomist
anatomist
animist
autonomist
bigamist
biochemist
ceramist
demist
dispensing chemist
ergonomist
geochemist
home economist
love-in-a-mist
pessimist
phlebotomist
polygamist
red mist
Soroptimist
taxonomist
warmist

Synonyms and antonyms of panspermist in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «panspermist» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PANSPERMIST

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The translations of panspermist from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «panspermist» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

panspermist
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

panspermist
570 millions of speakers

English

panspermist
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

panspermist
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

panspermist
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

panspermist
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

panspermist
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

panspermist
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

panspermist
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Panspermist
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

panspermist
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

panspermist
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

panspermist
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Panspermist
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

panspermist
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

panspermist
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अग्नीतज्ज्ञ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

panspermist
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

panspermist
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

panspermist
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

panspermist
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

panspermist
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

panspermist
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

panspermist
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

panspermist
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

panspermist
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of panspermist

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PANSPERMIST»

The term «panspermist» is used very little and occupies the 161.302 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about panspermist

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PANSPERMIST»

Discover the use of panspermist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to panspermist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Evolutionism in Eighteenth-century French Thought
23 Now that Maillet reveals that his source is Lucretius, one needs only to read the preceding verses in De rerum natura to see the impact that Lucretius had on his panspermist view of creation. In 5.791-92, Lucretius says, "...so then the ...
Mary Efrosini Gregory, 2008
2
Quarterly Journal of Science, and Annals of Mining, ...
In a thickly-populated country like ours, it must always be possible for the seeds of any disease to be carried any whither ; and a " Panspermist " ought not to be less vigilant in rooting up what, on his view, would be the necessary nidus for his  ...
‎1866
3
Journal of Science, and Annals of Astronomy, Biology, ...
In a thickly-populated country like ours, it must always be possible for the seeds of any disease to be carried any whither ; and a " Panspermist " ought not to be less vigilant in rooting up what, on his view, would be the necessary nidus for his  ...
‎1866
4
The Journal of Science, and Annals of Astronomy, Biology, ...
In a thickly-populated country like ours, it must always be possible for the seeds of any disease to be carried any whither ; and a " Panspermist " ought not to be less vigilant in rooting up what, on his view, would be the necessary nidus for his  ...
James Samuelson, William Crookes, 1866
5
The quarterly journal of science
In a thickly-populated country like ours, it must always be possible for the seeds of any disease to be carried any whither; and a “ Panspermist ” ought not to be less vigilant in rooting up what, on his view, would be the necessary 'nidus for his  ...
‎1866
6
Pubblicazioni Della Stazione Zoologica Di Napoli
In order to avoid the 'unphi- losophicaF postulation of continuous miraculous interventions in the course of Nature, mechanists resorted to pre-existence - ovist, animal- culist, or panspermist. The origins of the theory of pre-existence (as distinct ...
‎1987
7
The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of ...
... seems sufficient, as long since pointed out by Pasteur; but no one has hitherto been able to detect in the atmosphere that abundance of divers germs which the followers of Pouchet consider must exist therein if the panspermist theory is true.
James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, 1872
8
Popular Science
The gravest of these objections, it must be said, have applied to problems which do not concern the very foundation of the dispute between the panspermist system and its opposite. For instance, M. Tre'cul, the skillful and noted micrographer, ...
9
Fungal Biology in the Origin and Emergence of Life
By contrast, being convinced of the cosmic distribution of bacteria and viruses, the panspermist interprets these molecules as the 'detritus of biology' and deduces that 'interstellar dust particles could be largely derived from biology' ( both ...
David Moore, 2013
10
The Life Sciences in Eighteenth-Century French Thought
177 Man came from the worm as the butterfly came from the caterpillar.178 All this got repeated in 1750 in the Systeme d'Epicure, in which La Mettrie set forth a panspermist theory: plants and insects were born from germs coming from the air  ...
Jacques Roger Edited by Keith R. Benson Translated by Robert Ellrich, 1997

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