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BOTTOM QUARK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A quark with a charge of -1/3 and a mass about 10,000 times that of an electron
Synonyms:
beauty quark; bottom quark
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("bottom quark" is a kind of...):
quark ((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)
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