quarkless en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree English quark Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English quarkless From quark + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Without quarks.
How does one know a quarkless state or glueball when one sees one?
1982, Jean Thanh Van Tran, Elementary Hadronic Processes and Heavy Ion Interactions:In contrast, all quarkless baryons are gauge invariant.
2002, Jean-Paul Blaizot, Edmond Iancu, QCD Perspectives on Hot and Dense Matter: