noun. The quality or condition of being strange.

noun. undefined

noun. A quantum property of strange quarks and of hadrons that contain strange quarks that is conserved in electromagnetic and strong interactions, but may not be conserved in weak interactions that cause the decay of strange hadrons.

noun. The quantum number represented by this property, equal to the difference between the number of strange antiquarks and the number of strange quarks.

noun. The state or character of being strange, in any sense of that word.

noun. The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective).

noun. The state or quality of being strange, odd or weird.

noun. The product or result of being strange.

noun. one of the quantum numbers of subatomic particles that depends upon the relative number of strange quarks and anti-strange quarks

noun. (physics) one of the six flavors of quark

noun. the quality of being alien or not native

noun. unusualness as a consequence of not being well known

"We're suspending our disbelief anyway; we know that this strangeness is all a conceit and therefore "could not have happened" (we can hardly ignore the clear literalisation of the figurative that the story is built around, that "dead car" metaphor of daily language), but we are playing the game of all fiction, strange or otherwise, pretending that it "could have happened"."

strange  strangely  stranger  

flavor  flavour  

absurdity  awe  bewilderment  coldness  emptiness  

Kern  NMR  aberration  abnormality  absurdity