Particle

Noun

 * 1) A body with very small size; a fragment.
 * 2)  An elementary particle or subatomic particle.
 * 3)  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.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:particle

Derived terms

 * particle accelerator
 * particle beam
 * particle board
 * particle physics
 * modal particle
 * aspect particle

Related terms

 * part


 * particular
 * particulate

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From particula:, diminutive of pars:.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: partikel, lille del
 * Dutch: deeltje, partikel
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: (mório)
 * Hebrew: חלקיק, גרגיר
 * Interlingua:
 * Japanese: 粒子 (ryūshi)
 * Norwegian:


 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: particulă
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ,


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: (somatídio)
 * Hebrew: חלקיק
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: partikulo


 * Interlingua:
 * Japanese: 粒子 (ryūshi)
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: particulă
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 助词
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: (mório)
 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua:


 * Japanese:, 助辞,  天爾遠波,  弖爾乎波 , てにをは
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:


 * : rannig -où pl (1,2,3)
 * : partiklo
 * : particula (1)
 * : particella (1, 2, 3), briciolo, granello, grano


 * : 입 카(1), 미릴카 (1,2)
 * : partikel (1,2)
 * : రేణువు (reaNuvu) (1)