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strangeness

[ streynj-nis ]

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. : S


strangeness

/ ˈstreɪndʒnɪs /

noun

  1. the state or quality of being strange
  2. physics a property of certain elementary particles, characterized by a quantum number ( strangeness number ) conserved in strong and electromagnetic but not in weak interactions. It is associated with the presence of strange quarks


strangeness

/ strānjnĭs /

  1. The property of containing a strange quark or antiquark. Strangeness is expressed in terms of an integer quantum number, −1 for each strange quark and +1 for each strange antiquark. Hadrons that possess strangeness are called strange . The total strangeness of a quantum system is unchanged by decay processes involving the strong or electromagnetic forces; however, decay through the weak force can change the total strangeness of the system.
  2. See also baryon number


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Word History and Origins

Origin of strangeness1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; strange, -ness

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Example Sentences

Part of that strangeness is the feeling veterans sometimes have that their lives will never be as important as they were overseas.

We feel their strangeness when we read their words—they lived on a plane where few dare to tread.

He walked for several blocks in the weak light, confused at the strangeness—tense and somewhat frightened.

The rock paintings, because they are so much harder to read, seem more profound in their strangeness.

Waiting for a taxi, he breathed in the spicy, flaccid atmosphere of the city and felt the strangeness of things around him.

Here was the strangeness of it: that he did not distrust Lettice, nor felt resentment against Tony.

Also, that the quality that had impressed me first as being malefic was really only its singular and original strangeness.

He said nothing, and his absolute silence following upon his violent singing strengthened the grip of his strangeness upon her.

Following a brief interval, during which even Mollie Gretna was held silent by the strangeness of the proceedings.

She did not know the room to which this window belonged, and she paused under the trees, checked by a sense of strangeness.

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