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quark

  • noun
  • kwäk

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.

Other meanings

  1. An integer that uniquely identifies a text string.

  2. A nonsense, trivial text string.

Example sentences

  • “The strong interaction binds quarks into nucleons and nucleons to each other.”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

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This definition is adapted from “quark” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.