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particle

[ pahr-ti-kuhl ]

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.

    Synonyms: , , , , , ,

  2. Physics.
    1. one of the extremely small constituents of matter, as an atom or nucleus.
    2. an elementary particle, quark, or gluon.
    3. a body in which the internal motion is negligible.
  3. a clause or article, as of a document.
  4. Grammar.
    1. (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.
    2. such a word.
    3. 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.


particle

/ ˈ±èɑ˳Ùɪ°ìÉ™±ô /

noun

  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

    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

  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. RC Church a small piece broken off from the Host at Mass
  7. archaic.
    a section or clause of a document
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

particle

/ ±èä°ù′³ÙÄ­-°ìÉ™±ô /

  1. A very small piece of solid matter.
  2. An elementary particle, subatomic particle, or atomic nucleus.
  3. Also called corpuscle
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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  • ¾±²Ôt±ð°ù·±è²¹°ùt¾±Â·³¦±ô±ð adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of particle1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English word from Latin word particula. See part, -i-, -cle 1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of particle1

C14: from Latin particula a small part, from pars part
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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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Viral particles travel via airborne droplets of saliva, mucus and cells that make their way into a new body when their unsuspecting host breathes them in.

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Even small particles on Earth tend to fall slowly when suspended in water.

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After separating out the minerals, the mining ships then pipe back overboard the processed waters, sediment and mining “fines,†which are the small particles of the ground-up nodule ore.

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As the solar wind - the stream of energy and particles which have their own magnetic field - interacts with Earth's magnetic field, a process called magnetic reconnection occurs.

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