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quark +‎ -less

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quarkless (not comparable)

  1. (physics) Without quarks.
    • 1982, Jean Thanh Van Tran, Elementary Hadronic Processes and Heavy Ion Interactions:
      How does one know a quarkless state or glueball when one sees one?
    • 2002, Jean-Paul Blaizot, Edmond Iancu, QCD Perspectives on Hot and Dense Matter:
      In contrast, all quarkless baryons are gauge invariant.