quark
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1. fresh unripened cheese of a smooth texture made from pasteurized milk, a starter, and rennet (noun.food)
| hypernym | : | cheese, |
| definition | : | a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk (noun.food) |
2. (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 (noun.object)
| hyponym | : | beauty quark, bottom quark, |
| definition | : | a quark with a charge of -1/3 and a mass about 10,000 times that of an electron (noun.object) |
| hyponym | : | charm quark, |
| definition | : | a quark with an electric charge of +2/3 and a mass 2900 times that of an electron and a charm of +1 (noun.object) |
| hyponym | : | down quark, |
| definition | : | a stable quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 607 times that of an electron (noun.object) |
| hyponym | : | squark, strange quark, |
| definition | : | a quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 988 times that of an electron and a strangeness of -1 (noun.object) |
| hyponym | : | top quark, truth quark, |
| definition | : | a hypothetical quark with a charge of +2/3 and a mass more than 100,000 times that of an electron (noun.object) |
| hyponym | : | up quark, |
| definition | : | a stable quark with an electric charge of +2/3 and a mass 607 times that of an electron (noun.object) |
| part meronym | : | hadron, |
| definition | : | any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles (noun.object) |
| domain category | : | natural philosophy, physics, |
| definition | : | the science of matter and energy and their interactions (noun.cognition) |
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