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QUARK

What does "QUARK" mean?

An elementary particle that combines to form protons, neutrons, and other hadrons.

Meanings

  1. A fundamental constituent of matter that combines in threes to make protons and neutrons. Three quarks bind together to form a single proton. technical
  2. A type of soft, fresh, unaged cheese popular in German-speaking countries. She folded quark into the cheesecake batter.

Did you know?

  • Murray Gell-Mann lifted the name 'quark' from a single nonsense line in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake - 'Three quarks for Muster Mark!' - and the 'three' even matched the three quarks inside a proton.
  • Quarks break a rule every schoolbook particle obeys: they carry fractional electric charge, either +2/3 or -1/3, which is why you never see a lone quark with a clean whole-number charge.

Word origin

The particle was named by physicist Murray Gell-Mann in 1964, who took the word from James Joyce's line 'Three quarks for Muster Mark!' in 'Finnegans Wake'.

Remember it

QUARK = QUirky Atomic Rock - a tiny brick of matter with a fractional charge.

A little poem

Three locked in a proton-
never seen alone, never
asked to be apart.

haiku

Wordplay

  • A physicist orders three quarks. The bartender says, 'Sorry, you'll never see them separately.'

What it teaches

Some things only exist in company; pull them apart and they simply cease to be themselves.

Quick facts

What does QUARK mean?

An elementary particle that combines to form protons, neutrons, and other hadrons.

Is QUARK a valid word?

Yes — QUARK is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.

How many letters is QUARK?

QUARK has 5 letters and 1 syllable.

Where does QUARK come from?

The particle was named by physicist Murray Gell-Mann in 1964, who took the word from James Joyce's line 'Three quarks for Muster Mark!' in 'Finnegans Wake'.

What can QUARK teach us?

Some things only exist in company; pull them apart and they simply cease to be themselves.

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