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particle
[ pahr-ti-kuhl ]
noun
- a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit:
a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence.
- Physics.
- one of the extremely small constituents of matter, as an atom or nucleus.
- an elementary particle, quark, or gluon.
- a body in which the internal motion is negligible.
- a clause or article, as of a document.
- Grammar.
- (in some languages) one of the major form classes, or parts of speech, consisting of words that are neither nouns nor verbs, or of all uninflected words, or the like.
- such a word.
- a small word of functional or relational use, as an article, preposition, or conjunction, whether of a separate form class or not.
- Roman Catholic Church. a small piece of the Host given to each lay communicant in a Eucharistic service.
particle
/ ˈpɑːtɪkəl /
noun
- an extremely small piece of matter; speck
- a very tiny amount; iota
it doesn't make a particle of difference
- a function word, esp (in certain languages) a word belonging to an uninflected class having suprasegmental or grammatical function
questions in Japanese are indicated by the particle ``ka''
English ``up'' is sometimes regarded as an adverbial particle
the Greek particles ``mēn'' and ``de'' are used to express contrast
- a common affix, such as re-, un-, or -ness
- physics a body with finite mass that can be treated as having negligible size, and internal structure
- RC Church a small piece broken off from the Host at Mass
- archaic.a section or clause of a document
particle
/ pär′tĭ-kəl /
- A very small piece of solid matter.
- An elementary particle, subatomic particle, or atomic nucleus.
- Also called corpuscle
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- parti·cled adjective
- inter·parti·cle adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Origin of particle1
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Example Sentences
Indeed, many cutting-edge physicians are manipulating the diet to lower particle number.
When the Higgs particle was discovered, everywhere I went I heard people wondering about its significance.
After episodes of not-so-subtly mentioning the particle accelerator at S.T.A.R Labs, we finally get what we want.
After eight episodes of not-so-subtly mentioning the particle accelerator at S.T.A.R Labs, we finally get what we want.
For 50 years, scientists had predicted the existence of the particle we now know as Higgs boson, which gives mass to matter.
This, as a piece of pure economics, does not interest the individual employer a particle.
I can tell you, my dear idealist—you have not changed a particle, by the way—that there is another side you have never seen.
Let us conceive a particle of air situated immediately over the earth's polar axis.
Then let us imagine the particle moving toward the equator with the speed of an ordinary wind.
It was a hair-raising problem, too, and called for every ounce of nerve and every particle of skill the boy possessed.
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