Definition of Antiquark

1. Noun. The antiparticle of a quark.

Generic synonyms: Elementary Particle, Fundamental Particle
Group relationships: Hadron

Definition of Antiquark

1. Noun. (particles) the antiparticle of a quark ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Antiquark

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Antiquark

antipyretics
antipyrimidine
antipyrine
antipyrines
antipyrotic
antiquake
antiquarian
antiquarianism
antiquarianisms
antiquarianize
antiquarianized
antiquarianizes
antiquarianizing
antiquarians
antiquaries
antiquark (current term)
antiquarks
antiquary
antiquasiparticle
antiquate
antiquated
antiquatedly
antiquatedness
antiquates
antiquating
antiquation
antiquations
antique
antique shop

Literary usage of Antiquark

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Turn of the Century: 2100 by Charlie Pedersen (2007)
"Pseudo scalar mesons (spin 0) have the lowest rest energy, where the quark and antiquark have opposite spin, and then the vector mesons (spin 1), ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"The most easily described theoretical consideration favorable to the existence of the e is the model of mesons as bound states of quark (Q) and antiquark ..."

3. State of the Laboratory: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory edited by William A. Bookless (1995)
"The B Factory project consists of the PEP-II accelerator and a detector, called BaBar, to study the decay products from the quark-antiquark pairs coming ..."

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