quark

See also Quark

English

Wikipedia

Etymology 1

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).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /kwɔːk/, /kwɑːk/
• (US) IPA: /kwɔɻk/, /kwɑɻk/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)k

Noun

quark (plural quarks)

1. (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

Derived terms

• antiquark

See also

• beauty quark
• bottom quark
• charm quark
• down quark
• strange quark
• top quark
• truth quark
• up quark

Translations

(physics) In the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle which forms matter

Arabic: كوارك (ar) (kuwark) m. Armenian: քվարկ (hy) (k’vark) Bengali: কোয়ার্ক (bn) Bulgarian: кварк (bg) m. Catalan: quark (ca) m. Chinese: Cantonese: 誇克, 夸克 (kwa1 hak1) Mandarin: 誇克, 夸克 (kuā kè) Czech: kvark (cs) m. Danish: kvark (da) Dutch: quark (nl) m. Esperanto: kvarko (eo) Faroese: kvarkur (fo) m. Finnish: kvarkki (fi) French: quark (fr) m. German: Quark (de) n. Greek: κουάρκ (el) Hindi: क्वार्क (kvārk) Hungarian: kvark (hu) Icelandic: kvarki (is) m.

Ido: quarko (io) Irish: cuarc (ga) m. Italian: quark (it) m. Japanese: クォーク (ja) (kuwōku) Korean: 쿼크 (kwokeu), 쿼크모형 (kwokeumohyeong) Macedonian: кварк (mk) (kvárk) m. Persian: کوارک (fa) (kuārk) Polish: kwark (pl) m. Portuguese: quark (pt) m. Russian: кварк (ru) (kvark) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: кварк m. Roman: kvark m. Slovak: kvark (sk) m. Slovene: kvark (sl) m. Spanish: quark (es) m. Swedish: kvark (sv) Turkish: kuark Ukrainian: кварк (uk) m. Urdu: کوارک (ur) (kvārk)

Etymology 2

German Quark, from Middle High German quarc

Alternative forms

• qvark

Noun

quark (uncountable)

1. 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.

See also

• curd

Translations

soft creamy cheese

Belarusian: тварог (be) (tvaróh) m. Czech: tvaroh (cs) m. Danish: kvark (da) c. Dutch: kwark (nl) Estonian: kohupiim (et) Faroese: kvarkur (fo) m. Finnish: maitorahka (fi), rahka (fi) German: Quark (de) m., Topfen (de) m. (in Bavaria and Austria) Hungarian: túró (hu)

Macedonian: урда (mk) (úrda) f. Polish: twaróg (pl) Russian: творог (ru) (tvoróg, tvórog) m. Slovak: tvaroh (sk) Spanish: requesón (es) m., quark (es) m. Swedish: kvarg (sv), kvark (sv) n. Ukrainian: творог (uk) (tvoróh) m., сир (uk) (syr) m. Vilamovian: twiöeg

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Catalan

Etymology

From English quark.

Noun

quark m. (plural quarks)

1. (physics) quark

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Dutch

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

From English quark.

Noun

quark m. (plural quarks, ^??? please provide the diminutive!)

1. (physics) quark

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Galician

Noun

quark m. (plural quarks)

1. (physics) quark

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Italian

Etymology

English

Noun

quark m. inv.

1. (physics) quark

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Spanish

Noun

quark m. (plural quarks)

1. quark

Hypernyms

• fermión
• partícula elemental

Hyponyms

• (quarks) quark; quark arriba, quark abajo, quark encantado, quark extraño, quark cima, quark fondo ^{(Category: es:Quarks) [edit]}

See also

• (fermions) fermión; quark, leptón ^[edit]

• Quark on the Spanish Wikipedia.es.Wikipedia