Definitions for quark
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1. quarknoun

   (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

   "quarks have not been observed directly but theoretical predictions based on their existence have been confirmed experimentally"

2. quark cheese, quarknoun

   fresh unripened cheese of a smooth texture made from pasteurized milk, a starter, and rennet

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1. Quark

   A quark () is a type of elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter. Quarks combine to form composite particles called hadrons, the most stable of which are protons and neutrons, the components of atomic nuclei. All commonly observable matter is composed of up quarks, down quarks and electrons. Owing to a phenomenon known as color confinement, quarks are never found in isolation; they can be found only within hadrons, which include baryons (such as protons and neutrons) and mesons, or in quark–gluon plasmas. For this reason, much of what is known about quarks has been drawn from observations of hadrons. Quarks have various intrinsic properties, including electric charge, mass, color charge, and spin. They are the only elementary particles in the Standard Model of particle physics to experience all four fundamental interactions, also known as fundamental forces (electromagnetism, gravitation, strong interaction, and weak interaction), as well as the only known particles whose electric charges are not integer multiples of the elementary charge. There are six types, known as flavors, of quarks: up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom. Up and down quarks have the lowest masses of all quarks. The heavier quarks rapidly change into up and down quarks through a process of particle decay: the transformation from a higher mass state to a lower mass state. Because of this, up and down quarks are generally stable and the most common in the universe, whereas strange, charm, bottom, and top quarks can only be produced in high energy collisions (such as those involving cosmic rays and in particle accelerators). For every quark flavor there is a corresponding type of antiparticle, known as an antiquark, that differs from the quark only in that some of its properties (such as the electric charge) have equal magnitude but opposite sign. The quark model was independently proposed by physicists Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig in 1964. Quarks were introduced as parts of an ordering scheme for hadrons, and there was little evidence for their physical existence until deep inelastic scattering experiments at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in 1968. Accelerator program experiments have provided evidence for all six flavors. The top quark, first observed at Fermilab in 1995, was the last to be discovered.

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1. quark

   A quark is a type of elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter. Quarks bind together to form protons and neutrons, which are then components of atoms. Discovered in the 1960s, there are six types, or "flavors", of quarks known as: up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom. Quarks are unique in that they carry a fractional electric charge.

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1. Quark

   Quark is a fictional character in the American television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The character, which was played by Armin Shimerman, was depicted as a member of an extraterrestrial race known as the Ferengi, who are stereotypically ultra-capitalist and only motivated by profit.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of quark in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of quark in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of quark in a Sentence

1. Guy Wilkinson:

   What we want to do now is to look for other five-quark particles and try and understand more about their nature, and this may tell us something about how even the matter inside our bodies is bound together, it may also have cosmic consequences for ... understanding what happens to stars at the end of their life.

2. Doug Davis:

   We're creating compute capability in end-point devices that scale from our highest performance Xeon processor to the Quark family of products.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark
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