Quark vs Quart - 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 unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon. Equivalent to 1.136 liters in the UK and 0.946 liter (liquid quart) or 1.101 liters (dry quart) in the U.S.
(cards) Four successive cards of the same suit.
* 1908 , Cavendish, The laws of piquet adopted
(obsolete) A fourth; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.
* Spenser
As nouns the difference between quark and quart
is that quark is quark (cheese) or quark can be a quark (particle) while quart is a unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon equivalent to 1136 liters in the uk and 0946 liter (liquid quart) or 1101 liters (dry quart) in the us.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.quart
English
(wikipedia quart)Noun
(en noun)- A tierce major is good against any other tierce; a quart minor is good against a tierce major.
- Camber did possess the western quart .