Quark (disambiguation)

A quark is an elementary particle.

Quark may also refer to:

  • "Quark", a nonce word in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, and the origin of the particle name

Computing

  • Quark (company), a software manufacturer
  • Quark (kernel), a microkernel used in the MorphOS operating system
  • QuArK or Quake Army Knife, a game editor
  • Quark (hash function), a cryptographic hash function
  • Intel Quark, a line of CPUs designed for small size and low power consumption
  • Quarks, X resources representing strings using integers
  • BlackBerry Quark, a line of smartphones

Entertainment

Music

  • Quark Records, a former name of Emanem Records
  • Quark, a 1980 album by Japanese jazz fusion artist Jun Fukamachi
  • "Quark" (song), a 1994 song by German rock band Die Ärzte
  • "Quark", a 1995 song by BT from Ima

Fictional characters

  • Quark (Star Trek), in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  • Captain Qwark, a character in Ratchet & Clank video games
  • Quark, in Valhalla
  • Quark, a Marvel Comics character often associated with Longshot
  • Quark, a type of robot from Doctor Who TV series
  • Quark, a white dragon from Lunar: The Silver Star and its remakes
  • Quark, the family dog in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
  • Quark, in Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward
  • Quark, a character from Danger Mouse

Other entertainment uses

  • Quark/, four books of original short stories and poetry published in 1970 and 1971
  • Quark (magazine), a 1970s popular science and puzzle magazine
  • Quark (TV series), a short-lived 1977/1978 science fiction sitcom
  • Quark!, the pre-launch proposed name for Science Channel
  • Quarks (TV series), a German science journalism program

Other uses

  • Quark (technical festival), an annual technical festival
  • Quark (dairy product), a type of fresh dairy product similar to cottage cheese
  • Peugeot Quark, a concept car

See also

  • Quark, Strangeness and Charm, an album by Hawkwind
    • "Quark, Strangeness and Charm" (song), the title track of this album
  • Quirks & Quarks, a Canadian weekly science news program
  • Quirk (disambiguation)
  • Cark, a village in Cumbria, England