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QUARK

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

quark; quark cheese

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("quark" is a kind of...):

cheese (a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(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

Example:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("quark" is a kind of...):

elementary particle; fundamental particle ((physics) a particle that is less complex than an atom; regarded as constituents of all matter)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quark"):

beauty quark; bottom quark (a quark with a charge of -1/3 and a mass about 10,000 times that of an electron)

charm quark (a quark with an electric charge of +2/3 and a mass 2900 times that of an electron and a charm of +1)

down quark (a stable quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 607 times that of an electron)

squark; strange quark (a quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 988 times that of an electron and a strangeness of -1)

top quark; truth quark (a hypothetical quark with a charge of +2/3 and a mass more than 100,000 times that of an electron)

up quark (a stable quark with an electric charge of +2/3 and a mass 607 times that of an electron)

Holonyms ("quark" is a part of...):

hadron (any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb quark

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