Plural of quark
regular plural
The plural of quark is quarks.
Forms of quark
| Singular | quark /kwɑːk/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | quarks |
| Countable | countable |
Quarks in a sentence
- There are six known quarks in nature, the up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and the top quark.2006 December, Arnuf Quadt, “Top Quark Physics at Hadron Colliders”, in The European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, Heidelberg...
- Making a virtue out of necessity, they invented a dynamics that would permanently confine quarks within particles.2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, New Haven, Conn.: Sigma Xi, the...
- The fermions treated by the Standard Model are the (composite) baryons and the (elementary) leptons and quarks.From the entry fermion
- Apart from hadrons, which are made of subconstituent quarks, electron and positron are “fundamental” objects.2011, Sylvie Braibant, Giorgio Giacomelli, Maurizio Spurio, Particles and Fundamental Interactions, →ISBN, page 229. From the entry subconstituent
- When they say elementary particles such as quarks have charm and strangeness, it's a joke, Joyce.2005, Damien Broderick, Ferocious Minds: Polymathy and the New Enlightenment, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 128. From the entry it's a joke, Joyce
Meaning of quark
- noun In the Standard Model, one of a number of elementary subatomic particles having fractional electric charge that forms matter. They are theorized not to exist in isolation, but only in combinations in hadrons such as neutrons and protons or in quark–gluon plasmas.
- noun An integer that uniquely identifies a text string.
- noun A nonsense, trivial text string.
Questions about the plural of quark
- What is the plural of quark?
- The plural of quark is quarks.
- Is quark countable?
- Quark is a countable noun.
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