Crossword clues for strangeness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Strangeness \Strange"ness\, n. The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state or quality of being strange, odd or weird. 2 (context countable English) The product or result of being strange. 3 (context physics English) one of the quantum numbers of subatomic particles that depends upon the relative number of strange quarks and anti-strange quarks
WordNet
n. unusualness as a consequence of not being well known [syn: unfamiliarity] [ant: familiarity]
the quality of being alien or not native; "the strangeness of a foreigner" [syn: foreignness, curiousness] [ant: nativeness]
Wikipedia
In particle physics, strangeness ("S") is a property of particles, expressed as a quantum number, for describing decay of particles in strong and electromagnetic reactions which occur in a short period of time. The strangeness of a particle is defined as:
S = − (n − n)
where n represents the number of strange quarks and n represents the number of strange antiquarks .
The terms strange and strangeness predate the discovery of the quark, and were adopted after its discovery in order to preserve the continuity of the phrase; strangeness of anti-particles being referred to as +1, and particles as −1 as per the original definition. For all the quark flavor quantum numbers (strangeness, charm, topness and bottomness) the convention is that the flavor charge and the electric charge of a quark have the same sign. With this, any flavor carried by a charged meson has the same sign as its charge.
Usage examples of "strangeness".
And it was all therethe strangeness, the terribleness, of this wilf ride of a man on the back of a blue-tinted beastlike being that hated himand knew about the ship.
They have thus occasioned modern expounders to speculate about the Gnostic speculations in a manner that is marked by still greater strangeness.
The god of Anglicanism had crept under the skin of things, and all the stimulatingly inhuman strangeness of Nature had become as flatly familiar as a page from a textbook of metaphysics or theology.
He was casting nervous, absent-minded glances out the windows of the motoscafo, as if the strangeness of the city compelled him to look at it, though nothing of it was registering.
For the first time, Medra was given a vision of magic not as a set of strange gifts and reasonless acts, but as an art and a craft, which could be known truly with long study and used rightly after long practice, though even then it would never lose its strangeness.
Somehow it was seeing that eighty-foot silver cylinder drift around like a toy that brought home to Schirra the strangeness of his new environment.
He had not slept, thinking of the girl Shairn and the man Kerrel, trying to analyze the strangeness that clung about them and touched some buried chord within himself.
She was, to the Surma, a child walking around in a grown body, for she did not display the ritual markings of a responsible adult, but they dismissed her strangeness with a kind of humorous tolerance.
But, scenting strangeness such as they had never scented before, these lately-wolves decided among themselves that this tramontane was fair game.
Remo that the strangeness was the cool breeze coming in through the unreplaced plate-glass window when a long-nailed hand the color of old ivory reached out of the impenetrable night to take him by the back of the neck.
Speaking of the strangeness at first sight, presented to the Anglican mind, of some of their principles and opinions, I bid the reader go forward hopefully, and not indulge his criticism till he knows more about them, than he will learn at the outset.
He had given the matter much thought, and the strangeness that had come upon him had appeared after the breakbone fever that had nearly killed him.
His mind was occupied by the strangeness of it all: these quiet, dreamy people, in their silken tunics and soft sandals, moving with aimless vagueness among the discolored ruins.
When Feynman made that comment, physicists had had half a century to adjust to the strangeness of atomic behavior.
His Lady was a foresworn Witch who, in her day, had been outcast because of her choice of him, and who, by some quirk of strangeness, had NOT lost her Power when she married him.