Dictionary Definition
particle
Noun
2 a body having finite mass and internal
structure but negligible dimensions
3 a function word that can be used in English to
form phrasal verbs
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- italbrac RP /ˈpɑːtɪkəl/
- italbrac US /ˈpɑːrtɪkəl/
- Rhymes with: -ɑː(r)tɪkəl
Noun
- A body with very small size; a fragment.
- An elementary particle or subatomic particle.
- A word that has a particular grammatical function but does not obviously belong to any particular part of speech, such as the word to in English infinitives or O as the vocative particle.
Translations
body with very small size
elementary particle or subatomic particle
- Czech: částice
- Dutch: deeltje
- Danish: partikel , elementarpartikel
- Finnish: hiukkanen
- Greek: σωματίδιο (somatídio)
- Japanese: 粒子 (ryūshi)
- Polish: cząstka
- Russian: частица
- Portuguese: partícula
word that does not belong to any particular part
of speech
Translations to be checked
- ttbc Breton: rannig -où pl (1,2,3)
- ttbc Esperanto: partiklo
- ttbc French: particule (1, 2)
- ttbc German: Partikel (1,2), Partikel (3)
- ttbc Interlingua: particula (1)
- ttbc Italian: particella (1, 2, 3), briciolo, granello, grano
- ttbc Korean: 입 카(1), 미릴카 (1,2)
- ttbc Spanish: partícula (1)
- ttbc Swedish: partikel (1,2)
- ttbc Telugu: రేణువు (reaNuvu) (1)
Related terms
Extensive Definition
Besides its common definition, particle may refer
to:
In chemistry:
- Colloidal particle, part of a one-phase system of two or more components
- Subatomic
particle, which may be either:
- Elementary particle, a particle of which larger particles are composed, also called a fundamental particle
- Composite particle, a bound state between several elementary particles
- Point particle, an idealized particle that does not have any volume
- See also list of particles
In other contexts:
- Particle (ecology), in marine and freshwater ecology, a small object
- Particulate matter, in the areas of atmospheric physics and air pollution
- Grammatical particle, in linguistics, a useful catch-all lacking a strict definition
- Particle system, in computer graphics, a technique to simulate certain fuzzy phenomena
- Particle (band), a 2000 jam band from Los Angeles, California
See also
particle in Arabic: جسيم
particle in Catalan: Partícula
particle in Czech: Částice (rozcestník)
particle in Welsh: Gronyn
particle in Danish: Partikel
particle in German: Partikel
particle in Modern Greek (1453-):
Σωματίδιο
particle in Spanish: Partícula
particle in French: Particule
particle in Galician: Partícula
particle in Korean: 입자
particle in Ido: Partikulo
particle in Indonesian: Partikel
particle in Italian: Particella
particle in Hebrew: חלקיק
particle in Lithuanian: Dalelė
particle in Japanese: 粒子
particle in Polish: Cząstka
particle in Russian: Частица
particle in Finnish: Partikkeli
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
K-meson, ace, adjectival, adjective, adverb, adverbial, adversative
conjunction, atom, attributive, beta particle,
bit, butt, chip, chunk, clip, clipping, collop, conjunction, conjunctive
adverb, coordinating conjunction, copulative, copulative
conjunction, correlative conjunction, crumb, cut, cutting, dab, damn, disjunctive, disjunctive
conjunction, dole, dollop, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, drop, droplet, dwarf, electron, end, exclamatory noun, farthing, fleck, flyspeck, form class, form
word, fragment,
function class, gerundive, gleam, gnat, gob, gobbet, grain, granule, graviton, groat, hair, handful, hint, hoot, hunk, interjection, iota, jot, little, little bit, lota, lump, meson, mesotron, microbe, microorganism, midge, minim, minimum, minutia, minutiae, mite, modicum, moiety, molecule, morsel, mote, neutron, nutshell, ounce, paring, part of speech, participle, past participle,
pebble, perfect
participle, photon,
piece, pinch, pinhead, pinpoint, pion, pittance, point, preposition, present
participle, proton,
quark, rasher, ray, scintilla, scoop, scrap, scruple, shard, shaving, shiver, shred, slice, sliver, smidgen, smidgin, smitch, smithereen, snack, snap, snatch, snip, snippet, spark, speck, splinter, spoonful, spot, stitch, stump, subordinating conjunction,
suggestion, suspicion, syllable, tatter, thimbleful, tiny bit,
tittle, trifling amount,
trivia, vanishing point,
verbal adjective, whit,
whoop