QUARK
What does "QUARK" mean?
An elementary particle that combines to form protons, neutrons, and other hadrons.
Meanings
- A fundamental constituent of matter that combines in threes to make protons and neutrons. Three quarks bind together to form a single proton. technical
- 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.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.