Strange-interlude
noun
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a play (1928) by Eugene O’Neill.
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adjective, stranger, strangest. 1. unusual, extraordinary, or curious; odd; queer: a strange remark to make. 2. estranged, alienated, etc., as a result of being out of one’s natural environment: In Bombay I felt strange. 3. situated, belonging, or coming from outside of one’s own locality; foreign: to move to a strange place; strange religions. 4. […]
- Strange matter
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- Strangeness
noun 1. the quality or condition of being strange. 2. Physics. a quantum number assigned the value −1 for one kind of quark, +1 for its antiquark, and 0 for all other quarks; the strangeness of a hadron is the sum of the values for the strangeness of its constituent quarks and antiquarks. Symbol: S. […]
- Strange-particle
noun, Physics. 1. any elementary particle with a strangeness quantum number other than zero. strange particle Any of various unstable elementary particles, having a short half-life and a nonzero strangeness quantum number. Sigma and xi baryons, for example, are strange particles.
- Strange-quark
noun, Physics. 1. a quark having electric charge −1/3 times the elementary charge and strangeness −1; it is more massive than the up and down quarks. strange quark A quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass of 391 electron masses, greater than that of the up quark and down quark, but smaller […]