"polyquark" meaning in English

See polyquark in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: polyquarks [plural]
Etymology: From poly- + quark. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|poly|quark}} poly- + quark Head templates: {{en-noun}} polyquark (plural polyquarks)
  1. (particle physics) A hadron composed of more quarks than a baryon; a particle constituted of more than three quarks. Tags: particle

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "poly",
        "3": "quark"
      },
      "expansion": "poly- + quark",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From poly- + quark.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "polyquarks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "polyquark (plural polyquarks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with poly-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Subatomic particles",
          "orig": "en:Subatomic particles",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A hadron composed of more quarks than a baryon; a particle constituted of more than three quarks."
      ],
      "id": "en-polyquark-en-noun-ba3t1ok1",
      "links": [
        [
          "particle physics",
          "particle physics"
        ],
        [
          "hadron",
          "hadron"
        ],
        [
          "quark",
          "quark"
        ],
        [
          "baryon",
          "baryon"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(particle physics) A hadron composed of more quarks than a baryon; a particle constituted of more than three quarks."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "particle"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "polyquark"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "poly",
        "3": "quark"
      },
      "expansion": "poly- + quark",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From poly- + quark.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "polyquarks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "polyquark (plural polyquarks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with poly-",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Subatomic particles"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A hadron composed of more quarks than a baryon; a particle constituted of more than three quarks."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "particle physics",
          "particle physics"
        ],
        [
          "hadron",
          "hadron"
        ],
        [
          "quark",
          "quark"
        ],
        [
          "baryon",
          "baryon"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(particle physics) A hadron composed of more quarks than a baryon; a particle constituted of more than three quarks."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "particle"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "polyquark"
}

Download raw JSONL data for polyquark meaning in English (1.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-08-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-02 using wiktextract (99a4ed9 and 3c020d2). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.