strangeness

strangeness
(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. newness, unfamiliarity, exoticism, novelty, abnormality, singularity, eccentricity, fantasticality, weirdness, remoteness, indescribability, esotericism, esoterism, sense of being alien, unaccustomed quality, strange nature, unfamiliar surroundings, feeling of newness.
Ant. familiarity*, acquaintanceship, homelike quality.

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  • Strangeness — Strange ness, n. The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective). [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • strangeness — index irregularity, nonconformity, quirk (idiosyncrasy) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

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  • strangeness — /straynj nis/, n. 1. the quality or condition of being strange. 2. Physics. a quantum number assigned the value 1 for one kind of quark, +1 for its antiquark, and 0 for all other quarks; the strangeness of a hadron is the sum of the values for… …   Universalium

  • Strangeness — keistumas statusas T sritis fizika atitikmenys: angl. strangeness vok. Seltsamkeit, f; Strangeness, f rus. странность, f pranc. étrangeté, f …   Fizikos terminų žodynas

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  • Strangeness — Strange|ness [ streindʒnis] die; <aus engl. strangeness »Fremdartigkeit« zu strange »fremd, eigenartig«> Quantenzahl zur Klassifizierung von Elementarteilchen (Phys.) …   Das große Fremdwörterbuch

  • strangeness — strange ► ADJECTIVE 1) unusual or surprising. 2) not previously visited, seen, or encountered. 3) (strange to/at/in) archaic unaccustomed to or unfamiliar with. 4) Physics denoting one of the six flavours of quark. DERIVATIVES strangely adverb …   English terms dictionary

  • Strangeness (particle physics) — In particle physics, strangeness, denoted as S, is a property of particles, expressed as a quantum number for describing decay of particles in strong and electro magnetic reactions, which occur in a short period of time. The strangeness of a… …   Wikipedia

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