Quark

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of a group of six elementary particles having electric charges of a magnitude one-third or two-thirds that of the electron, regarded as constituents of all hadrons. See Table at subatomic particle.
  • n. A soft creamy acid-cured cheese of central Europe made from whole milk.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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.
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Same as quawk.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. fresh unripened cheese of a smooth texture made from pasteurized milk, a starter, and rennet
  • n. (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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