Quark vs Null - What's the difference?
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(particle) In the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle which forms matter. Quarks have never been found alone as of this writing, They combine to form hadrons, such as protons and neutrons.
* 1993 , Gell-Mann won the linguistic battle once again: his choice, a croaking nonsense word, was "quark". (After the fact, he was able to tack on a literary antecedent when he found the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark" in Finnegans Wake, but the physicists quark was pronounced from the beginning to rhyme with "cork".) — (James Gleick), Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics
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(computing, X Window System) An integer that uniquely identifies a text string.
A soft creamy cheese, eaten throughout northern, central, and eastern Europe, very similar to cottage cheese except that it is usually not made with rennet.
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between quark and null
is that quark is quark (cheese) or quark can be a quark (particle) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.quark
English
(wikipedia quark)Etymology 1
First used in 1963 by one of the theorists who postulated the existence of quarks, Wikipedia article.Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared. Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity,
Derived terms
* antiquarkSee also
* beauty quark * bottom quark * charm quark * down quark * strange quark * top quark * truth quark * up quarkEtymology 2
(etyl) Quark, from late (etyl) twarc, from a (etyl) language, compare (etyl) .Alternative forms
* qvarkNoun
(-)See also
* curdEtymology 3
Onomatopoeia, from the sound of the squawk.null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.