Quark

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1 1.1.1 Noun 1.1.2 Derived terms 1.1.3 See also 1.1.4 Translations 1.2 Etymology 2 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.2 Translations

English

Etymology 1

First used in 1963 by the discoverer of quarks, Murray Gell-Mann, to name these new particles, it is taken from a nonsense word used in James Joyce's novel Finnegan's Wake.

Noun

quark (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.

Derived terms

• antiquark

See also

• up quark
• down quark
• charm quark
• strange quark
• top quark / truth quark
• bottom quark / beauty quark

Translations

• Cantonese: 夸克/誇克 (kwa1 hak1)
• Catalan: quark m
• Chinese: 夸克/誇克 (kuā kè)
• Dutch: quark
• Esperanto: kvarko
• Finnish: kvarkki
• French: quark
• German: Quark n.
• Hungarian: kvark
• Italian: quark
• Japanese: クォーク (kuwōku)
• Korean: 쿼크, 쿼크모형 (kwokeu, kwokeumohyeong)
• Polish: kwark m
• Portuguese: quark m
• Russian: кварк (kvark)
• Slovenian: kvark
• Spanish: quark m

Etymology 2

German quarc

Noun

quark

1. 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.

Translations

• Finnish: maitorahka, rahka
• German: Quark m.
• Swedish: kvark
• Russian: творог

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