German

Noun

Quark m ‎(genitive Quarks or Quarkes, no plural)

1. quark (cheese)
2. (informal) rubbish, nonsense, baloney

Synonyms

• Glumse

Etymology 2

From English quark.

Noun

Quark n ‎(genitive Quarks, plural Quarks)

1. a quark (particle)

Declension

Derived terms

• Bottom-Quark (Beauty-Quark)
• Charm-Quark
• Down-Quark
• Strange-Quark
• Top-Quark (Truth-Quark)
• Up-Quark

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kwɔːk/, /kwɑːk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kwɔɹk/, /kwɑɹk/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)k, Rhymes: -ɑː(r)k
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k

Noun

quark ‎(plural quarks)

1. (physics) In the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle which forms matter. Quarks have never been found alone as of this writing, They 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
   • 2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 146:

     There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared. Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity, […] are the neutrino, the pi meson, the antiproton, the quark and the Higgs boson.

2. (computing, X Window System) An integer that uniquely identifies a text string.
   • 2012, Keith D. Gregory, Programming with Motif (page 453)

     Two functions are provided to convert between strings and quarks: XrmStringToQuark and XrmQuarkToString […]

Hyponyms

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

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• hadron
• meson

Etymology 2

German quark.

German Quark, from late Middle High German twarc, from a West Slavic language, compare Polish twaróg.

Noun

quark ‎(uncountable)

1. A soft creamy cheese, eaten throughout northern, central, and eastern Europe, very similar to cottage cheese except that it is usually not made with rennet.

Translations

See also

• curd

Etymology 3

Onomatopoeia, from the sound of the squawk.

Noun

quark ‎(plural quarks)

1. (Falkland Islands, informal) The black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowing from English quark.

Noun

quark m ‎(plural quarks)

1. (physics) quark

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology

Borrowing from English quark.

Noun

quark m ‎(plural quarks)

1. (physics) quark

French

Etymology

Borrowing from English quark.

Pronunciation

Noun

quark m ‎(plural quarks)

1. (physics) quark

Galician

Etymology

Borrowing from English quark.

Noun

quark m ‎(plural [please provide])

1. (physics) quark

Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English quark.

Noun

quark m ‎(invariable)

1. (physics) quark

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from English quark.

Noun

quark m (plural quarks)

1. (physics) quark (an elementary subatomic particle which forms matter)
2. quark (soft creamy cheese)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowing from English quark.

Noun

quark m ‎(plural quarks)

1. quark

Hypernyms

• fermión
• partícula elemental

Hyponyms

• (quarks) quark; quark arriba, quark abajo, quark encantado, quark extraño, quark cima, quark fondo ^{(Category: es:Quarks)}

See also

• (fermions) fermión; quark, leptón

• quark on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es