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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024par•ti•cle /ˈpɑrtɪkəl/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a tiny portion or amount;
a very small bit:a particle of dust. - Physicsone of the extremely small, most basic pieces of matter, as an atom, proton, or quark.
- Grammara small, usually unchanging word or affix, often a preposition or conjunction, having a functional or relational significance rather than an intrinsic meaning:In English the particles include words like to when used in forming the infinitive, as in to go, or the word following the verb in a phrasal verb, as up in get up.
See -par-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024par•ti•cle (pär′ti kəl),USA pronunciation n. - a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount;
a tiny or very small bit:a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence. - Physics
- Physicsone of the extremely small constituents of matter, as an atom or nucleus.
- Physicsan elementary particle, quark, or gluon.
- Physicsa 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.
- Religion[Rom. Cath. Ch.]a small piece of the Host given to each lay communicant in a Eucharistic service.
- Latin particula. See part, -i-, -cle1
- Middle English 1350–1400
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged mite, whit, iota, jot, tittle, grain, speck.
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