quark¹

/kwɑːk, kwɔːk/

n.

Physics any of a group of subatomic particles carrying a fractional electric charge, postulated as building blocks of the hadrons.

Etymology

1960s: invented by the American physicist Murray Gell-Mann and assoc. with the line ‘Three quarks for Muster Mark’ in Joyce's Finnegans Wake (1939).

quark²

/kwɑːk/

n.

a type of low-fat curd cheese.

Etymology

1930s: from Ger. Quark ‘curd, curds’.

以上來源於：《簡明牛津英語詞典》

辨析

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Etymology

quark2

Etymology

quark¹

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