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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'quark' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions quark noun  (particles) In the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle which forms matter. Quarks are never found alone in nature and combine to form hadrons, such as protons and neutrons. 1993: 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".) — w:James Gleick, James Gleick, Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics Translations:  Dutch: quark French: quark German: Quark Italian: quark Spanish: quark        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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