Definitions
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- noun The hypothetical counterpart to the quark as described in supersymmetry theory.
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- noun physics A hypothetical
supersymmetric counterpart to a quark, having a spin of zero instead of one-half.
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- noun a quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 988 times that of an electron and a strangeness of -1
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hannah gave a little "squark" when she felt the girl's cold fingers.
Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Charles Edward Pearce
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Books are for Devils … He would have put his message in every cell, every, atom, every proton, every neutron, every quark, every squark and right smack bang in the middle of the the Higgs-Boson …
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He would have put his message in every cell, every, atom, every proton, every neutron, every quark, every squark and right smack bang in the middle of the the Higgs-Boson …
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Still, by no means all the birds here only screech and squark.
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It then looked at him again, impatiently, and squarked an impatient squark.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001 1987
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All the fellas dug her, you should have heard them squark
Sidewalks Of New York James W. Blake and Charles E. Lawlor 1972
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All the fellas dug her, you should have heard them squark
Sidewalks Of New York James W. Blake and Charles E. Lawlor 1972
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Still, by no means all the birds here only screech and squark.
Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881
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First, if you calculate the loop diagrams explicitly, you will see that the contribution from the top quark diagram (up on the picture) that we have already discussed will be exactly canceled by the contribution from the stop squark diagram (down on the picture).
The Reference Frame 2010
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(The supersymmetric partner of a quark would be a squark, and the partner of the electron is called the selectron - apparently physicists love silly names).
bilby commented on the word squark
The sound made by an electron you sat on.
October 10, 2008
gangerh commented on the word squark
Ha! I like it. But surely you need to sit on 988 electrons.
October 11, 2008
bilby commented on the word squark
Oh, that's someone else's definition. If you're heavy enough, one electron is enough ;-)
October 11, 2008