particle

n.

1. A very small piece or part; a tiny portion or speck.
2. A very small or the smallest possible amount, trace, or degree: not a particle of doubt.
3. Physics.
   1. A body whose spatial extent and internal motion and structure, if any, are irrelevant in a specific problem.
   2. An elementary particle.
   3. A subatomic particle.
4. Linguistics.
   1. An uninflected item that has grammatical function but does not clearly belong to one of the major parts of speech, such as up in He looked up the word or to in English infinitives.
   2. In some systems of grammatical analysis, any of various short function words, including articles, prepositions, and conjunctions.
5. Roman Catholic Church.
   1. A small piece of a consecrated host.
   2. One of the smaller, individual hosts.
6. Archaic. A small division or section of something written, such as a clause of a document.

[Middle English, from Latin particula, diminutive of pars, part-, part. See part.]

noun

A tiny amount: bit¹, crumb, dab¹, dash, dot, dram, drop, fragment, grain, iota, jot, minim, mite, modicum, molecule, ort, ounce, scrap¹, scruple, shred, smidgen, speck, tittle, trifle, whit. Chiefly British spot. See big/small/amount.

n

A small amount of material.

An extremely small mass of material. See also alpha particles and beta particle.

• elementary p. — any of the subatomic particles, including electrons, protons, neutrons, positrons, neutrinos and muons.

IN BRIEF: A very small quantity or piece. Also: one of the small bits of matter (i.e. molecule).

There is a particle of dirt on the camera lens.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - partikel

idioms:

• particle accelerator    partikelaccelerator
• particle physics    partikelfysik

Nederlands (Dutch)
deeltje, partikel

Français (French)
n. - (Phys) particule, particule, (Ling) particule

idioms:

• particle accelerator    accélérateur de particules
• particle physics    physique des particules

Deutsch (German)
n. - Teilchen, Partikel, Fünkchen

idioms:

• particle accelerator    Teilchenbeschleuniger
• particle physics    Quantenphysik

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - μόριο, (φυσ.) (υποατομικό) σωματίδιο, (μτφ.) μικροποσότητα

idioms:

• particle accelerator    (φυσ.) επιταχυντής υποατομικών σωματιδίων
• particle physics    σωματιδιακή φυσική

Italiano (Italian)
particella

idioms:

• particle accelerator    acceleratore di particelle
• particle physics    fisica della particelle

Português (Portuguese)
n. - partícula (f)

idioms:

• particle accelerator    acelerador de partículas
• particle physics    física de partículas

Русский (Russian)
частица, крупица

idioms:

• particle accelerator    ускоритель частиц
• particle physics    физика элементарных частиц

Español (Spanish)
n. - partícula

idioms:

• particle accelerator    acelerador de partículas
• particle physics    física de partículas

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - partikel, gnutta

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
粒子, 极小量, 点

idioms:

• particle accelerator    粒子加速器
• particle physics    粒子物理, 高能物理学

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 粒子, 極小量, 點

idioms:

• particle accelerator    粒子加速器
• particle physics    粒子物理, 高能物理學

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 미립자, 극소(량), (서류의) 조항

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 分子, 質点, 極小量, ありふれた接頭辞, 不変化詞, 聖餅の小片

idioms:

• particle accelerator    粒子加速器
• particle physics    粒子物理学

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) جزي, دقيقه, ذرة‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮חלקיק, גרגיר, מילת-יחס, מילית, שמץ, מילת חיבור, טפולה‬

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