quark
quark definition
quark (kwôrk, kwärk)
noun
☆ Particle Physics any of a set of elementary particles that bind together in various combinations to form hadrons
Etymology: arbitrary use (by M. Gell-Mann) of a word used by James Joyce in Finnegans Wake, prob. < archaic quark, to croak, of echoic orig.
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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