What is the meaning of "as-yet"?
I found the following sentence on one of BBC articles that I've read. Thought, I could understand the meaning of the sentence without roughly, I cannot understand the meaning of "as-yet". Therefore, I would really appreciate it if someone could let me know what is the meaning of "as-yet". In addition, though I tried to find the meaning of this on the dictionaries, I couldn't find the word. Therefore, I guess this might be associated with some grammatical point that I don't know combining two prepositions.
Theoretical physicists believe that it might also be associated with an as-yet undiscovered sub-atomic particle. There is more than one concept for what this hypothetical particle might be. One is called a leptoquark, another is the Z' boson (Z-prime boson).
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dileepa as-yet as-yet: up to this (current) point in time. This is indicating that they have been searching for it and expect that the particle will be discovered soon.
- dileepa as-yet as-yet: up to this (current) point in time.
- This is indicating that they have been searching for it and expect that the particle will be discovered soon.
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dileepaas-yet
as-yet: up to this (current) point in time.
This is indicating that they have been searching for it and expect that the particle will be discovered soon.
0dileepaI cannot understand the meaning of "as-yet".
The hyphenation is debatable, but leaving that aside, "as yet" is an idiomatic expression meaning "until and including now" ( https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/yet?q=yet_1 ). The s
0Here is a Merriam Webster dictionary definition.
as yet
: up to the present or a specified time there are as yet few clueshttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yet The expression consists of two words. It is not usually written with a hyphen.
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