quark

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English

Etymology 1

Coined by American physicist Murray Gell-Mann in 1963. The literary connection to James Joyce's Finnegans Wake was asserted later; see the Quark Wikipedia article.

Pronunciation

Noun

quark (plural quarks)

  1. (physics) In the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle that forms matter. They combine to form hadrons, such as protons and neutrons.
    • 2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, page 146:
      There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared. Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity, […] are the neutrino, the pi meson, the antiproton, the quark and the Higgs boson.
  2. (computing, X Window System) An integer that uniquely identifies a text string.
    • 2012, Keith D. Gregory, Programming with Motif, page 453:
      Two functions are provided to convert between strings and quarks: XrmStringToQuark and XrmQuarkToString […]
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Etymology 2

German quark.

Borrowed from German Quark, from late Middle High German twarc, from a West Slavic language (compare Polish twaróg), from Proto-Slavic *tvarogъ.

Doublet of tvorog.

Noun

quark (uncountable)

  1. A soft creamy cheese, eaten throughout northern, central, eastern, and southeastern Europe as well as the Low Countries, very similar to cottage cheese except that it is usually not made with rennet.
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Etymology 3

Onomatopoeic, from the sound of the squawk.

Noun

quark (plural quarks)

  1. (Falkland Islands, informal) The black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax.

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References

  1. ^ James Gleick (1993) Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics:
    Gell-Mann won the linguistic battle once again: his choice, a croaking nonsense word, was "quark". (After the fact, he was able to tack on a literary antecedent when he found the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark" in Finnegans Wake, but the physicists quark was pronounced from the beginning to rhyme with "cork".)

Basque

Etymology

From English quark.

Pronunciation

Noun

quark inan

  1. (physics) quark

Declension

Declension of quark (inanimate, ending in consonant)
indefinite singular plural
absolutive quark quarka quarkak
ergative quarkek quarkak quarkek
dative quarki quarkari quarkei
genitive quarken quarkaren quarken
comitative quarkekin quarkarekin quarkekin
causative quarkengatik quarkarengatik quarkengatik
benefactive quarkentzat quarkarentzat quarkentzat
instrumental quarkez quarkaz quarkez
inessive quarketan quarkean quarketan
locative quarketako quarkeko quarketako
allative quarketara quarkera quarketara
terminative quarketaraino quarkeraino quarketaraino
directive quarketarantz quarkerantz quarketarantz
destinative quarketarako quarkerako quarketarako
ablative quarketatik quarketik quarketatik
partitive quarkik — —
prolative quarktzat — —

Further reading

  • "quark" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia , euskaltzaindia.eus

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English quark.

Noun

quark m (plural quarks)

  1. (physics) quark

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nl

Etymology

Borrowed from English quark.

Pronunciation

Noun

quark m (plural quarks)

  1. (physics) quark

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English quark.

Pronunciation

Noun

quark m (plural quarks)

  1. (physics) quark

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from English quark.

Noun

quark m (plural quarks)

  1. (physics) quark

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English quark.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkwark/
  • Rhymes: -ark
  • Hyphenation: quàrk

Noun

quark m (invariable)

  1. (physics) quark

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Further reading

  • quark in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

Etymology 1

Unadapted borrowing from English quark.

Noun

quark m (plural quarks)

  1. (physics) quark (an elementary subatomic particle which forms matter)

Etymology 2

Unadapted borrowing from German Quark.

Noun

quark m (plural quarks)

  1. quark (soft creamy cheese)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “quark” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
  2. ^ “quark” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English quark.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkwaɾk/
  • Rhymes: -aɾk
  • Syllabification: quark

Noun

quark m (plural quarks)

  1. quark
    Hypernyms: fermión, partícula elemental

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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