strange quark

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

   Synonymssquark

   Broaderquark

Questions about strange quark

What does strange quark mean?

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

What is another word for strange quark?

Close synonyms include squark. 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 strange quark a common word?

strange quark 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.