Definizione monolingua

quark

quark (plural quarks)

1. (physics) In the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle which forms matter. Quarks are never found alone in nature and combine to form hadrons, such as protons and neutrons.

   1993: Gell-Mann won the linguistic battle once again: his choice, a croaking nonsense word, was ""quark"". (After the fact, he was able to tack on a literary antecedent when he found the phrase ""Three quarks for Muster Mark"" in Finnegans Wake, but the physicists quark was pronounced from the beginning to rhyme with ""cork"".) — James Gleick, Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics

Definizione dizionario quark

	quark
	(physics) In the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle which forms matter
	Elementary particle which forms protons and neutrons

Altri significati:

a soft creamy cheese. The Russian quark and Finnish quark are somewhat different. The Russian version is firmer in consistency and contains about 15% milk fat, whereas the Finnish quark often contains less than 1% milk fat.

soft creamy cheese

(physics) In the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle which forms matter. Quarks are never found alone in nature and combine to form hadrons, such as protons and neutrons.