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Strangeness (Noun)

The quality of being alien or not native; "the strangeness of a foreigner".

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.

The tourists struggled to adjust to the strangeness of the unfamiliar city streets.
Her accent and mannerisms added to the strangeness of her presence in the small town.
The artist's use of unconventional materials and techniques added to the strangeness of her sculptures.
The traveler felt a sense of strangeness as she walked through the crowded market in a foreign land.
The movie's portrayal of a futuristic society highlighted the strangeness of a world vastly different from our own.

(physics) one of the six flavors of quark.

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.

The discovery of the omega minus baryon confirmed the existence of strangeness as a fundamental property of quarks.
In the context of particle physics, strangeness is a measure of the number of strange quarks present in a particle.
The strange quark is one of the six flavors of quarks and is characterized by its strangeness, which is a fundamental property of the quark.
The concept of strangeness was first introduced to explain the unusual behavior of certain particles that were discovered in the 1940s and 1950s.
The conservation of strangeness is an important principle in particle physics, as it helps to explain the behavior of particles in high-energy collisions.