quark

Noun

Meaning

fresh unripened cheese of a smooth texture made from pasteurized milk, a starter, and rennet

(physics) hypothetical truly fundamental particle in mesons and baryons; there are supposed to be six flavors of quarks (and their antiquarks), which come in pairs; each has an electric charge of +2/3 or -1/3

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Synonyms

quark cheese cork atom Ion electron particle molecule proton meson curd quasar monad junket curdling elementary particle

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Hypernyms

cheese elementary particle fundamental particle

Hyponyms

beauty quark bottom quark charm quark down quark up quark strange quark

Phrases with the word

quark nugget strange quark hadron strange quark particle dark quark nugget sea quark strange quark meson

Examples

quarks have not been observed directly but theoretical predictions based on their existence have been confirmed experimentally Source: Internet

Antiparticles of quarks are called antiquarks, and are denoted by a bar over the symbol for the corresponding quark, such as for an up antiquark. Source: Internet

A neutron composed of two down quarks and an up quark, decays to a proton composed of a down quark and two up quarks, for example. Source: Internet

A similar mysterious situation was with the Δ ++ baryon ; in the quark model, it is composed of three up quarks with parallel spins. Source: Internet

A quark may pair up with an antiquark: the quark has a color and the antiquark has the corresponding anticolor. Source: Internet

A quark, which will have a single color value, can form a bound system with an antiquark carrying the corresponding anticolor. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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