Topic: PHYSICS
| Date: | 1900-2000 |
| Origin: | Invented by Murray Gell-Mann (born 1929), U.S. scientist, based on the phrase "three quarks for Muster Mark" in Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce; because originally there were thought to be three quarks |
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quark
[countable]
[countable] technicalHP a very small part of something, which is smaller than an atom

