snark
/snɑː(ɹ)k/ noun C2- The fictional creature of Lewis Carroll's poem, used allusively to refer to fruitless quest or search.
- A graph in which every node has three branches, and the edges cannot be coloured in fewer than four colours without two edges of the same colour meeting at a point.
- A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment. · Cabrera's Valentine's Day monopole detection or some extremely energetic cosmic rays could be examples of snarks.
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