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the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies the purest and most concentrated essence of something the most typical example or representative of a type
출처: wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
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Fifth alchemical principle. The underlying spiritual basis underpinning the four elements, corresponding to the idea of the Ether, or space-time continuum.
출처: www.findyourfate.com/faq/q-glossary.htm
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An imagined fifth "essence of heaven" in addition to the four elements of earth: hence, the last or highest essence of anything.
출처: bahai-library.com/writings/bahaullah/iqan/iq-glos....
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Quintessence is a type of matter that has negative pressure and interacts only weakly with the rest of the matter in the universe. The existence of quintessence could explain the acclerating expansion of the universe. Quintessence has not been detected directly. See this story from CERN.
출처: bell.mma.edu/~mdickins/Cosmos/GlossaryCosmos.html
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