quark
noun /kwɑːk/
/kwɑːrk/, /kwɔːrk/
- [countable] (physics
) a very small part of matter (= a substance). There are several types of quark and it is thought that protons, neutrons, etc. are formed from them.物理 Topics Physics and chemistryc2夸克(据信构成质子、中子等的细小粒子) - [uncountable] a type of soft cheese from central Europe, similar to curd cheese
Topics Foodc2夸克干酪;软(质)干酪
词源1960s: a word invented by Murray Gell-Mann, the American theoretical physicist. Originally quork, the term was changed by association with the line “Three quarks for Muster Mark” in Joyce's Finnegans Wake (1939).