PARTICLE

Particle

In the physical sciences, a particle is a small localized object to which can be ascribed several physical or chemical properties such as volume or mass.

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particle

Noun

  1. A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.
  2. 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.
  3. Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle.


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