Definitions for quarks
quarks
quark
Spelling: [kwawrk, kwahrk]
IPA: /kwɔrk, kwɑrk/
Quarks is a 6 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.
You can make 81 anagrams from letters in quarks (akqrsu).
Definitions for quarks
noun
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Physics. any of the hypothetical particles with spin 1/2, baryon number 1/3, and electric charge 1/3 or −2/3 that, together with their antiparticles, are believed to constitute all the elementary particles classed as baryons and mesons; they are distinguished by their flavors, designated as up (u), down (d), strange (s), charm (c), bottom or beauty (b), and top or truth (t), and their colors, red, green, and blue.
Compare color (def 18), flavor (def 5), quantum chromodynamics, quark model.
Origin of quarks
coined in 1963 by U.S. physicist Murray Gell-Mann (born 1929), who associated it with a word in Joyce's Finnegans Wake, read variously as English quark croak and German Quark curd, (slang) ru
Examples for quarks
Perhaps no amount of heat can reduce quarks into smaller pieces, and quarks are the end of the road.