Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun weakly_interacting_massive_particle

1 sense of weakly interacting massive particle

Sense 1
weakly interacting massive particle, WIMP -- (a hypothetical subatomic particle of large mass that interacts weakly with ordinary matter through gravitation; postulated as a constituent of the dark matter of the universe)
       => elementary particle, fundamental particle -- ((physics) a particle that is less complex than an atom; regarded as constituents of all matter)