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BEAUTY QUARK

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Dictionary entry overview: What does beauty quark mean?

• BEAUTY QUARK (noun)
The noun BEAUTY QUARK has 1 sense:

1. a quark with a charge of -1/3 and a mass about 10,000 times that of an electron

Familiarity information: BEAUTY QUARK used as a noun is very rare.

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• BEAUTY QUARK (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A quark with a charge of -1/3 and a mass about 10,000 times that of an electron

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

beauty quark; bottom quark

Hypernyms ("beauty quark" 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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