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▪ I. squark, n.|skwɑːk|
[Imitative.]
A harsh croak; a squawk.
1860Simeon Fishing 244 If..a jay happens to catch sight of you, at his first warning squark every pheasant will..be off instanter. 1894Horse & Hound II. 226 Perhaps the squarks of those young herns frightened that fox.
▪ II. squark, n.2 Particle Physics.|skwɔːk, skwɑːk|
[f. super- + quark n.1]
The supersymmetric counterpart of a quark, with spin 0 instead of ½.
1982Physics Lett. B. CXIV. 235 A non-vanishing baryon asymmetry can be generated by the decay of coloured Higgs bosons and Higgs fermions into quarks and squarks. 1984New Scientist 17 May 16/2 Supersymmetric theorists..have had to make up lots of new names for the unseen ‘sparticles’, such as the spin-0 supersymmetric quarks and leptons (‘squarks’ and ‘sleptons’). 1986Nature 14 Aug. 592/3 The Tevatron should see squarks, the superpartners of quarks, if their masses are less than 200–300 GeV.
▪ III. squark, v.|skwɑːk|
[Imitative: cf. prec. and quark v.]
1. intr. Of birds: To croak harshly; to squawk.
1871W. Morris in Mackail Life (1899) I. 235, I heard a heron ‘squark’ just now. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 236 By no means all the birds here only screech and squark. Several of them have very lovely notes.
2. trans. To utter in croaks.
1891Chambers's Jrnl. 31 Oct. 703 The crows will come and sit round, squarking sarcastic remarks.
Hence ˈsquarking vbl. n.
1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 92 Save for this squarking of the parrots the swamps are silent all the day. |