particle
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tɪ noun
1.
a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit: a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence.
2.
Physics.
a.
one of the extremely small constituents of matter, as an atom or nucleus.
b.
an elementary particle, quark, or gluon.
c.
a body in which the internal motion is negligible.
3.
a clause or article, as of a document.
4.
Grammar.
a.
b.
such a word.
c.
a small word of functional or relational use, as an article, preposition, or conjunction, whether of a separate form class or not.
5.
Roman Catholic Church. a small piece of the Host given to each lay communicant in a Eucharistic service.
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World English Dictionary
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| —n | |
| 1. | an extremely small piece of matter; speck |
| 2. | a very tiny amount; iota: it doesn't make a particle of difference |
| 3. | a function word, esp (in certain languages) a word belonging to an uninflected class having suprasegmental or grammatical function: the Greek particles ``mēn'' and ``de'' are used to express contrast; questions in Japanese are indicated by the particle ``ka''; English ``up'' is sometimes regarded as an adverbial particle |
| 4. | a common affix, such as re-, un-, or -ness |
| 5. | physics a body with finite mass that can be treated as having negligible size, and internal structure |
| 6. | See elementary particle |
| 7. | RC Church a small piece broken off from the Host at Mass |
| 8. | archaic a section or clause of a document |
| [C14: from Latin particula a small part, from pars | |
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Word Origin & History
particle
1380, "small part or division of a whole," from L. particula "little bit or part," dim. of pars (gen. partis), see part (n.). In construction, particle board (1957) is so called because it is made from chips and shavings of wood.
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
particle par·ti·cle (pär'tĭ-kəl)
n.
A very small piece or part.
An elementary particle.
A subatomic particle.
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Science Dictionary
particle (pär'tĭ-kəl) Pronunciation Key
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Example sentences
But occasionally a neutrino reacts with an atom to create a particle called a muon.
For reasons of particle symmetry, electric and magnetic moments also want to align.
The size of a transistor radio, the dosimeter emits a sharp click when it detects a radioactive particle.
As the principle goes, the act of measuring a tiny particle destroys it.
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