quark

Coined by American physicist Murray Gell-Mann in 1963. The literary connection to James Joyce's Finnegans Wake was asserted later; see the Quark Wikipedia article.^[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kwôk, IPA^(key): /kwɔːk/; enPR: kwäk, IPA^(key): /kwɑːk/

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• (General American) enPR: kwôrk, IPA^(key): /kwɔɹk/; enPR: kwärk, IPA^(key): /kwɑɹk/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k, Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k

quark (plural quarks)

1. (physics) In the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle that forms matter. They combine to form hadrons, such as protons and neutrons.

   Synonym: (obsolete) ace

   • 2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist‎^[1], 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.

2. (computing, X Window System) An integer that uniquely identifies a text string.
   • 2012, Keith D. Gregory, Programming with Motif, page 453:

     Two functions are provided to convert between strings and quarks: XrmStringToQuark and XrmQuarkToString […]

• hadron
• meson

 

Borrowed from German Quark, from late Middle High German twarc, from a West Slavic language (compare Polish twaróg), from Proto-Slavic *tvarogъ.

Doublet of tvorog.

quark (uncountable)

1. A soft creamy cheese, eaten throughout northern, central, eastern, and southeastern Europe as well as the Low Countries, very similar to cottage cheese except that it is usually not made with rennet.

• curd

Onomatopoeic, from the sound of the squawk.

quark (plural quarks)

1. (Falkland Islands, informal) The black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax.

•   quark on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
•   quark (dairy product) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
•   quark (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From English quark.

• IPA^(key): /kwark/ [kwark]
• Rhymes: -ark
• Hyphenation: quark

quark inan

1. (physics) quark

• “quark”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia

Borrowed from English quark.

quark m (plural quarks)

1. (physics) quark

 

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

quark

Wikipedia ^nl

Borrowed from English quark.

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• Homophone: kwark

quark m (plural quarks)

1. (physics) quark

Borrowed from English quark.

• IPA^(key): /kwaʁk/

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quark m (plural quarks)

1. (physics) quark

Borrowed from English quark.

quark m (plural quarks)

1. (physics) quark

Unadapted borrowing from English quark.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwark/
• Rhymes: -ark
• Hyphenation: quàrk

quark m (invariable)

1. (physics) quark

• quarkonio

• quark in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Unadapted borrowing from English quark.^[1][2]

quark m (plural quarks)

1. (physics) quark (an elementary subatomic particle which forms matter)

Unadapted borrowing from German Quark.^[1]

quark m (plural quarks)

1. quark (soft creamy cheese)

• cuark, cuarc

Unadapted borrowing from English quark.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwaɾk/ [ˈkwaɾk]
• Rhymes: -aɾk
• Syllabification: quark

quark m (plural quarks)

1. quark

   Hypernyms: fermión, partícula elemental

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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

• (fermions) fermión; quark, leptón
•   quark on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

• “quark”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28