squark

1. 1.

   a quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 988 times that of an electron and a strangeness of -1

   Synonymsstrange quark

   Broaderquark

Other forms of squark

plural

squarks·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about squark

What does squark mean?

squark means "a quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 988 times that of an electron and a strangeness of -1".

How many syllables are in squark?

squark has 1 syllable: squark.

What is another word for squark?

Close synonyms include strange quark. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is squark a common word?

squark is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.