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quark | quar |

As nouns the difference between quark and quar

is that quark is quark (cheese) or quark can be a quark (particle) while quar is (obsolete) a quarry.

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)
  • (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
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
    • , author=(Jeremy Bernstein) , title=A Palette of Particles , volume=100, issue=2, page=146 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared. Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity,
  • (computing, X Window System) An integer that uniquely identifies a text string.
    • Derived terms
    * antiquark
    Related terms
    * quarkonic
    See also
    * beauty quark * bottom quark * charm quark * down quark * strange quark * top quark * truth quark * up quark

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) Quark, from late (etyl) twarc, from a (etyl) language, compare (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * qvark

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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.
    • See also
    * curd

    Etymology 3

    Onomatopoeia, from the sound of the squawk.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax.
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    quar

    English

    Noun

  • (obsolete) A quarry.
    • A chrysolite, a gem, the very agate / Of state and policy, cut from the quar / Of Machiavel — Ben Jonson.
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