strangeness

strange·ness  (strnjns)

n.

1. The quality or condition of being strange.

2. Physics A quantum number equal to hypercharge minus baryon number, indicating the possible transformations of an elementary particle upon strong interaction with another elementary particle.

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strangeness [ˈstreɪndʒnɪs]

n

1. the state or quality of being strange

2. (Physics / General Physics) Physics a property of certain elementary particles, characterized by a quantum number (strangeness number) conserved in strong and electromagnetic but not in weak interactions. It is associated with the presence of strange quarks

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strangeness  (strnjns)

The property of containing a strange quark or antiquark. Strangeness is expressed in terms of an integer quantum number, -1 for each strange quark and +1 for each strange antiquark. Hadrons that possess strangeness are called strange. The total strangeness of a quantum system is unchanged by decay processes involving the strong or electromagnetic forces; however, decay through the weak force can change the total strangeness of the system. See also baryon numberisospin

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Strangeness 

1. Alien and mysterious and uncanny, like sleeping out in the jungle alone —Christopher Isherwood
2. Eerie as a man carving his own epitaph —William Mcllvanney
3. Miraculous as fire in the snow —Sam Shepard
4. Mysterious as an Agatha Christie story with the last page torn out —James Brooke
5. Mysterious as cells seen under a microscope —Ann Beattie

   In Beattie’s story, Janus, the comparison refers to the bits of color in a ceramic bowl.

6. Mysterious as tea leaves —Vincent Canby
7. Mystery emanated from her like a fire alarm —Richard Ford
8. Peculiar as a middle-aged man undressed —David Denby
9. Queer as a green kielbasa —Petter Meinke

   A colloquialism on the same theme: “Queer as a three dollar bill.”

10. Queer as a jaybird —Anon
11. The scenes and incidents had the strangeness of the transcendental, as if they were snatches torn from lives on other planets that had somehow drifted to the earth —Boris Pasternak
12. Strange as a wedding without a bridegroom —Anon
13. Strange, eerie: like something out of a fairy tale —T. Coraghessan Boyle

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	strangeness - unusualness as a consequence of not being well known unfamiliarity unusualness - uncommonness by virtue of being unusual queerness, quirk, quirkiness, oddity, crotchet - a strange attitude or habit eeriness, ghostliness - strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear freakishness, abnormality - marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal singularity - strangeness by virtue of being remarkable or unusual bizarreness, outlandishness, weirdness - strikingly out of the ordinary quaintness - strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned; "some words in her dialect had a charming quaintness" eccentricity - strange and unconventional behavior
	2.	strangeness - (physics) one of the six flavors of quark flavour, flavor - (physics) the six kinds of quarks high energy physics, high-energy physics, particle physics - the branch of physics that studies subatomic particles and their interactions
	3.	strangeness - the quality of being alien or not native; "the strangeness of a foreigner" foreignness, curiousness quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare exoticism, exoticness, exotism - the quality of being exotic; "he loved the exoticism of Egypt" alienage, alienism - the quality of being alien

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strangeness

noun oddity, abnormality, peculiarity, weirdness, unfamiliarity, unexpectedness, bizarreness, unusualness, freakishness, outlandishness, curiousness the breathy strangeness of the music

Translations

strangeness [ˈstreɪndʒnɪs] N

1. (= oddness) → lo extraño, rareza f

2. (= unfamiliarity) → novedad f

strangeness [ˈstreɪndʒnəs] n → étrangeté f

strangeness

n

(= oddness) → Seltsamkeit f, → Merkwürdigkeit f

(= unfamiliarity) → Fremdheit f; (of work, activity) → Ungewohntheit f