strangeness
/ˈstreɪndʒnəs/
noun
- The quality of being unusual, unfamiliar, or odd.
- There was a certain strangeness in the way he looked at me.
- He couldn't get used to the strangeness of life in a new country.
- The strangeness of the empty city made her feel uneasy.
- In physics, a property of certain subatomic particles (quarks) related to their decay behavior.
- The particle's strangeness was measured in the experiment.
- Strangeness is conserved in strong interactions but not in weak ones.
- Scientists studied the strangeness of the newly discovered quark.
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