quark
/kwɑːk//kwɑɹk/
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 (1)
quark (plural quarks)
- 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.
- A simpler and more elegant scheme can be constructed if we allow non-integral values for the charges. We can dispense entirely with the basic baryon b if we assign to the triplet t the following properties: spin #92;frac#123;1#125;#123;2#125;, z#61;#123;-#92;frac#123;1#125;#123;31964 February 1, M[urray] Gell-Mann, “A Schematic Model of Baryons and Mesons”, in Physics Letters, volume 8, number 3, Amsterdam, North Holland: North-Holland Publishing Company, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC...
- There are six known quarks in nature, the up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and the top quark. The quarks are arranged in three pairs or "generations". Each member of a pair may be transformed into its partner via the charged-current weak interaction. Together with the six known leptons (the...2006 December, Arnuf Quadt, “Top Quark Physics at Hadron Colliders”, in The European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg: Springer, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 835...
- Synonyms:
- ace
- An integer that uniquely identifies a text string.
- Two functions are provided to convert between strings and quarks: XrmStringToQuark and XrmQuarkToString […] The second takes a quark as its parameter and returns a pointer to its associated string; it is used primarily for debugging and runtime error messages.1992, Keith D. Gregory, “Resources Revisited”, in Programming with Motif, New York, N.Y.: Springer-Verlag New York, →DOI, →ISBN, page 453
- A nonsense, trivial text string.
Noun (2)
quark (uncountable)
- A soft, creamy, unripened cheese made from cow's milk, originating from and eaten throughout central, northern, eastern, and southeastern Europe, as well as the Low Countries.
Noun (3)
quark (plural quarks)
- The black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax).
- Synonyms:
- quawk
quark meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
quark in Hindi
- one of a number of elementary subatomic particles having fractional electric charge that forms matter
- क्वार्क kvārk
- soft, creamy, unripened cheese made from cow’s milk
- क्वार्क kvārk
quark in Tamil
- one of a number of elementary subatomic particles having fractional electric charge that forms matter
- குவார்க்கு kuvārkku
quark in Marathi
- one of a number of elementary subatomic particles having fractional electric charge that forms matter
- क्वार्क kvārka
quark in Urdu
- one of a number of elementary subatomic particles having fractional electric charge that forms matter
- کوارک kvārk
- soft, creamy, unripened cheese made from cow’s milk
- کوارک kvārk
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- quark in Bengali
- কোয়ার্ক kōẇark
- quark in Telugu
- క్వార్క్ kvārk
- quark in Malayalam
- ക്വാർക്ക് kvāṟkkŭ
- quark in Kannada
- ಕ್ವಾರ್ಕ್
- quark in Punjabi
- ਕੁਆਰਕ kuārak
- quark in Gujarati
- ક્વાર્ક, ક્વોર્ક, કવાર્ક
- quark in Odia
- କ୍ୱାର୍କ, କ୍ୱାର୍କ୍
- quark in Nepali
- क्वार्क kwārka
- quark in Pashto
- کوارک
- quark in Tagalog
- quark
- quark in Arabic
- كِوَرْكٌ, كُوَارْك kuwārk
- quark in Malay
- kuark
- quark in Indonesian
- kuark, quark
- quark in Persian
- کوارک kuârk
- quark in Thai
- ควาร์ก
- quark in Vietnamese
- quắc
- quark in Myanmar
- ကွာ့ kwa.
Examples of quark 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...
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Forms of quark
| plural | quarks |
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Origin of quark
Etymology 1 sense 1 (“subatomic particle”) was coined by the American physicist Murray Gell-Mann (1929–2019) in 1963, apparently an arbitrary word. Subsequently, in a letter dated 27 June 1978 to the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary Supplement, Gell-Mann associated the word with the sentence “Three quarks for Muster Mark!” from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake (1939) and indicated that he pronounced the word /kwɔɹk/, reasoning that the sentence referred to a call in a pub for “three quarts”. However, the context in the book indicates that quark is probably a variant of quawk (“harsh call of a bird”) and was intended by Joyce to be pronounced /kwɑːk/, the modern pronunciation.
[Alt: A spoonful of quark cheese served with tomato slices on a plate] Borrowed from German Quark (“cottage cheese; curds; curd cheese”). Doublet of tvorog and twaróg.
Onomatopoeic, from the sound of the squawk.
Words formed from quark
Phrases with quark
- up quark
- sea quark
- top quark
- down quark
- charm quark
- quark novae
- quark novas
- quark stars
- truth quark
- beauty quark
- bottom quark
- anti-up quark
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Words that rhyme with quark
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Questions about quark
- What does quark mean?
- Quark means 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.
- What is quark in Hindi?
- Quark in Hindi is क्वार्क (kvārk). See Quark meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use quark in a sentence?
- There are six known quarks in nature, the up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and the top quark.
- What part of speech is quark?
- Quark is a noun.
- How do you pronounce quark?
- Quark is pronounced /kwɑːk/ (UK).
- What is the plural of quark?
- The plural of quark is quarks.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: quark (page history and authors); quark (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); quark (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); quark (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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