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   Quark

   /kwärk/

   

   noun

   • 1. any of a number of subatomic particles carrying a fractional electric charge, postulated as building blocks of the hadrons. Quarks have not been directly observed but theoretical predictions based on their existence have been confirmed experimentally.

   Word Origin 1960s: a word invented by Murray Gell-Man (see Gell-Mann, Murray). Originally quork, the term was changed by association with the line ‘Three quarks for Muster Mark’ in Joyce's Finnegans Wake (1939).

   Scrabble Points: 18

   • Q

     10

   • U

     1

   • A

     1

   • R

     1

   • K

     5

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