strangeness

• Существительное, обозначающее качество или состояние необычности, незнакомости или странности; также используется в физике для обозначения свойства некоторых кварков.

A noun referring to the quality or state of being unusual, unfamiliar, or odd; also used in physics to denote a property of certain quarks.

uncountable

1. UnusualnessB1formal

   The quality of being odd, unfamiliar, or not well known.

   Необычность

   • The strangeness of the situation made everyone uncomfortable.
   • She was struck by the strangeness of the old house.
   • There is a certain strangeness in meeting a stranger who looks exactly like you.

   Synonymsanomalousnessbizarrenesscuriousnesseccentricityoddnesspeculiarityqueernesssingularityunusualnessweirdness

   Antonymscommonnessconventionalityfamiliaritynormalcyordinariness

2. Quark flavor (physics)C2formalscientific

   A property of quarks, one of the six flavors (up, down, charm, strange, top, bottom), associated with the strange quark.

   Странность (кварковый аромат)

   • The strange quark carries a quantum number called strangeness.
   • Particles containing a strange quark are said to have non-zero strangeness.
   • Strangeness is conserved in strong interactions but not in weak interactions.

3. AliennessB2formal

   The quality of being foreign, unfamiliar, or not native.

   Чужеродность

   • The strangeness of the foreign customs made him feel like an outsider.
   • There is a strangeness to the landscape that feels otherworldly.
   • The strangeness of the language barrier was difficult to overcome.

   Synonymsexoticismforeignnessothernessoutlandishnessunfamiliarity

   Antonymsfamiliaritynativeness