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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.
Synonyms: , , , , , ,
- 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
/ ˈɑːɪə /
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''
the Greek particles ``mēn'' and ``de'' are used to express contrast
English ``up'' is sometimes regarded as an adverbial particle
- 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
- A very small piece of solid matter.
- An elementary particle, subatomic particle, or atomic nucleus.
- Also called corpuscle
Other 51Թ Forms
- 貹t· adjective
- t·貹t· adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of particle1
Example Sentences
Bakersfield, Visalia, Fresno, Los Angeles and Sacramento were in the top 10 for worst particle pollution.
The tiny particles - roughly the size of a grain of sand - vaporise creating visible streaks of light.
The name “meteor shower” might also incorrectly imply that what viewers are seeing are meteors themselves, or the leftover comet particles and bits from broken asteroids, instead of the trail left behind them.
Electrically charged particles fly from our neighborhood star into Earth's magnetosphere, where a powerful magnetic field surrounds our planet.
Depending on the type of rocket fuel used, launches produce nitrogen oxides, chlorine, black carbon particles, water vapor, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide — and no propellant avoids creating of some kind of emissions.
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