Molecule

Noun

 * 1)  The smallest particle of a specific element or compound that retains the chemical properties of that element or compound; a group of atoms held together by chemical bonds.
 * 2) A tiny amount.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:molecule
 * See also Thesaurus:particle

Meronyms

 * atom

Related terms

 * molecular

Adjectives for Molecule
blundering; organic; asymmetric; infinitesimal.

Verbs for Molecule
blast—; break down—; detect—; dissociate into—s; ionize—s; split—; store in—; weigh ——; —attracts; —bombards; —charges; — clings; —collides; —composes; —fascinates; — group; — pair off; —puzzles; —retains ; — unite.

Thesaurus
Kekule formula, ace, acid, acidity, agent, air, alkali, alkalinity, alloisomer, anion, antacid, atom, atomic cluster, atomic particles, base, benzene ring, biochemical, bit, branched chain, brute matter, building block, cation, chain, chemical, chemical element, chromoisomer, closed chain, component, compound, compound radical, constituent, copolymer, cycle, dab, dimer, dole, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, dwarf, earth, electron, element, elementary particle, elementary unit, farthing, fire, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, fundamental particle, gobbet, grain, granule, groat, hair, handful, heavy chemicals, heterocycle, high polymer, homocycle, homopolymer, hydracid, hyle, hypostasis, inorganic chemical, ion, iota, isomer, jot, lattice, little, little bit, lota, macromolecule, material, material world, materiality, matter, meson, metamer, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, modicum, monad, monomer, mote, natural world, nature, neutralizer, nonacid, nuclear particle, nutshell, organic chemical, ounce, oxyacid, particle, pebble, physical world, pinch, pittance, plenum, point, polymer, proton, pseudoisomer, quark, radical, ray, reagent, ring, scruple, side chain, simple radical, smidgen, smitch, space-lattice, speck, spoonful, spot, straight chain, stuff, substance, substratum, sulfacid, the four elements, thimbleful, tiny bit, tittle, trifling amount, trimer, trivia, unit of being, water, whit

Etymology
Summary: < molécule: <  molecula:, diminutive of  moles:; see mole.

French molécule (1674, Pierre Le Gallois, Conversations tirées de l'Académie de M. l'abbé Bourdelot, contenant diverses recherches et observations physiques) cited in Quemada, Bernard (1965), Datations et documents lexicographiques (tome 3).

Medieval Latin molecula (early XVII cent., Pierre Gassendi), cited in Le Grand Robert de la Langue Française (2e édn) tome 6. ISBN 2-85036-094-5. pp. 522–23. Diminutive of moles

Translations

 * Afrikaans: molekuul
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Aragonese: molecula
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri: molekul
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: малекула
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 * Catalan: molècula
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 * Danish: molekyle
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 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მოლეკულა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: מוליקולה
 * Hindi:, व्यूहाणु
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, mólekúl
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: molekul
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: molekul
 * Kazakh:
 * Korean: 분자
 * Latin: molecula
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: molekulė
 * Lower Sorbian:


 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: molekul
 * Malayalam: തന്മാത്ര
 * Manx: co-vreneen
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 * Occitan: molecula
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 * Persian:
 * Polish: cząsteczka,
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 * Romanian: moleculă
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 * Sundanese: molekul
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 * Tagalog:
 * Tamil: மூலக்கூறு
 * Thai: โมเลกุล
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Upper Sorbian: molekul
 * Uyghur: مولېكۇلا
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 * Waray:
 * Burmese: မော်လီကျူး
 * Burmese: မော်လီကျူး
 * Burmese: မော်လီကျူး
 * Burmese: မော်လီကျူး
 * Burmese: မော်လီကျူး