quark

Meaning

Noun

• In the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle that forms matter. They combine to form hadrons, such as protons and neutrons.
• An integer that uniquely identifies a text string.
• A soft creamy cheese, eaten throughout northern, central, eastern, and southeastern Europe as well as the Low Countries, very similar to cottage cheese except that it is usually not made with rennet.
• The black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• beauty quark
• bottom quark
• charm quark
• down quark
• strange quark
• top quark
• truth quark
• up quark

Origin

• . The literary connection to James Joyce's Finnegans Wake was asserted later; see the Quark Wikipedia article.
• Borrowed from German Quark, from late Middle High German twarc, from a language (compare Polish twaróg), from Proto-Slavic *tvarogъ.
• tvorog.
• , from the sound of the squawk.