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quarkonium

[kwawr-koh-nee-uh m, kwahr-]

noun Physics.

a meson composed of a quark and an antiquark of the same flavor.

Origin of quarkonium

1975–80; quark + -on¹ + -ium, on the model of positronium and similarly named particles

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