SQUARK

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 988 times that of an electron and a strangeness of -1

Synonyms:

squark; strange quark

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("squark" is a kind of...):

quark ((physics) hypothetical truly fundamental particle in mesons and baryons; there are supposed to be six flavors of quarks (and their antiquarks), which come in pairs; each has an electric charge of +2/3 or -1/3)

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