quark
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Etymology 1 [edit]
First used in 1963 by the discoverer of quarks, Murray Gell-Mann, to name these new particles. The literary connection to James Joyce's Finnegans Wake was asserted later (quote below).
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quark (plural quarks)
- (physics) In the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle which forms matter. Quarks are never found alone in nature and combine to form hadrons, such as protons and neutrons.
- 1993, Gell-Mann won the linguistic battle once again: his choice, a croaking nonsense word, was "quark". (After the fact, he was able to tack on a literary antecedent when he found the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark" in Finnegans Wake, but the physicists quark was pronounced from the beginning to rhyme with "cork".) — James Gleick, Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics
- 2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 146:
- There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared. Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity, […] are the neutrino, the pi meson, the antiproton, the quark and the Higgs boson.
- (computing, X Window System) An integer that uniquely identifies a text string.
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(physics) In the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle which forms matter
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Etymology 2 [edit]
German Quark, from Middle High German quarc
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Noun [edit]
quark (uncountable)
- a soft creamy cheese. The Russian quark and Finnish quark are somewhat different. The Russian version is firmer in consistency and contains about 15% milk fat, whereas the Finnish quark often contains less than 1% milk fat.
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soft creamy cheese
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Catalan [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From English quark.
Noun [edit]
quark m (plural quarks)
- (physics) quark
Dutch [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From English quark.
Noun [edit]
quark m (plural quarks)
- (physics) quark
French [edit]
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Audio (Paris) (file)
Noun [edit]
quark m (plural quarks)
- (physics) quark
Galician [edit]
Noun [edit]
quark m (plural quarks)
- (physics) quark
Italian [edit]
Etymology [edit]
English
Noun [edit]
quark m (invariable)
- (physics) quark
Spanish [edit]
Noun [edit]
quark m (plural quarks)
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- (quarks) quark; quark arriba, quark abajo, quark encantado, quark extraño, quark cima, quark fondo (Category: es:Quarks)
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- (fermions) fermión; quark, leptón
Quark on the Spanish Wikipedia.es.Wikipedia
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