arche

Definitions

1. One of the moons of Jupiter.
2. The first principle of existing things in pre-Socratic philosophy, initially assumed to be of water.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“In more modern times both the moving and the matter⟳ moved appear⟳ more complex and malleable, and less drawn from the realm of everyday experience⟳. The substance may be dark matter⟳ and quarks rather than water or air, and the arche may be gravity or string harmonics.”

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