strangeness
nounEtymology From Middle English straungenesse; equivalent to strange + -ness.
1
Usually The state or quality of being strange, odd or weird.
2
Usually The product or result of being strange.
3
Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics Particle, Usually One of the quantum numbers of subatomic particles, depending upon the relative number of strange quarks and anti-strange quarks.
- Mesons which combine the charmed quark with the up or down antiquarks are denoted the D mesons. These mesons carry explicit charm (i.e. have a non-zero charm quantum number), just as the K mesons carry strangeness.2020, James E. Dodd, Ben Gripaios, The Ideas of Particle Physics, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 173:
- Synonyms
26 terms
abnormalcy, abnormalism, abnormality, abnormity, anomalousness, atypicality, crotchet, deviancy, eccentricity, enormity, extraordinariness, freakishness, irregularity, nonnormality, oddity, oddness, peculiarness, queerhood, queerness, quirk, quirkiness, rumness, strangeness, unusuality, unusualness, weirdness- Antonyms
- normality
- Derived terms
- high strangeness, multistrangeness
- Hypernyms
- nonuniformity
- Hyponyms
- unconformity, uncommonness, rareness, rarity