Wiktionary:Word of the day/2025/June 16

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quark n
  1. (particle physics) In the Standard Model, one of a number of elementary subatomic particles having fractional electric charge that forms matter. They are theorized not to exist in isolation, but only in combinations in hadrons such as neutrons and protons or in quark–gluon plasmas.
  2. (by extension, computing, X Window System)
    1. An integer that uniquely identifies a text string.
    2. (slang) A nonsense, trivial text string.

Today is Bloomsday, which celebrates the life of the Irish writer James Joyce. It is named after Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of Joyce’s 1922 novel Ulysses, the events of which take place on this day in 1904. The American physicist Murray Gell-Mann, who coined the word quark for the subatomic particle, noted that the word had appeared in another of Joyce’s works, Finnegans Wake (1939).

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