particle

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English

Etymology

From Middle French particule, and its source, Latin particula (“small part, particle”), diminutive of pars (“part, piece”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈpɑːtɪk(ə)l/
• (US) IPA: /ˈpɑːɹdəkəl/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)tɪkəl

Noun

particle (plural particles)

1. A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something. [from 14th c.]
2. (linguistics) 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. [from 16th c.]
3. (physics) Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle. [from 19th c.]
   • 2011, Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw, The Quantum Universe, Allen Lane 2011, p. 55:

     What, he asked himself, does quantum theory have to say about the familiar properties of particles such as position?

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:particle

Derived terms

• particle accelerator
• particle beam
• particle board
• particle physics
• modal particle
• aspect particle

Related terms

Related terms

part

particular particulate

Translations

body with very small size

Arabic: جسيم (ar) (Jusaim) Armenian: մասնիկ (hy) (masnik) Czech: částice (cs) f. Danish: partikel (da) c., lille (da) del (da) c. Dutch: deeltje (nl) n., partikel (nl) n. Finnish: hiukkanen (fi), partikkeli (fi) French: particule (fr) f. German: Partikel (de) n. Greek: μόριο (el) n. (mório) Hebrew: חלקיק (he) (chelkik) m., גרגיר (he) (gargir) m. Interlingua: particula (ia) Japanese: 粒子 (ja) (ryūshi) Korean: 입자 (ko) (ipja)

Norwegian: partikkel (no) m. Polish: cząstka (pl) f. Portuguese: partícula (pt) f. Romanian: particulă (ro) f. Russian: частица (ru) (častíca) f., крупица (ru) (krupíca) f. Scottish Gaelic: bìdeag (gd) f.,criomag (gd) f.,mìr (gd) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: чѐстица (sh) f. Roman: čèstica (sh) f. Spanish: partícula (es) f. Swahili: chembechembe (sw), punje (sw) Swedish: partikel (sv) c.

elementary particle or subatomic particle

Arabic: جسيم (ar) (Jusaim) Armenian: մասնիկ (hy) (masnik) Czech: částice (cs) f. Danish: partikel (da) c., elementarpartikel (da) c. Dutch: deeltje (nl) n. Finnish: hiukkanen (fi) French: particule (fr) f. German: Partikel (de) n. Greek: σωματίδιο (el) n. (somatídio) Haitian Creole: patikil Hebrew: חלקיק (he) (chelkik) m. Hungarian: részecske (hu) Ido: partikulo (io) Interlingua: particula (ia)

Japanese: 素粒子 (ja) (soryūshi) Korean: 소립자 (ko) (soripja) Norwegian: partikkel (no) m. Polish: cząstka (pl) f. Portuguese: partícula (pt) f. Romanian: particulă (ro) f. Russian: частица (ru) (častíca) f. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: чѐстица (sh) f. Roman: čèstica (sh) f. Spanish: partícula (es) f. Swahili: chembechembe (sw) Swedish: partikel (sv) c.

word that does not belong to any particular part of speech

Arabic: أداة (ar) (ʼadāa) f. Armenian: եղանակավորող բառ (hy) (eġanakavoroġ baṙ) Chinese: Mandarin: 助詞 (cmn), 助词 (cmn) (zhùcí) Czech: částice (cs) f. Danish: partikel (da) c. Finnish: partikkeli (fi) French: particule (fr) f. German: Partikel (de) f. Greek: μόριο (el) n. (mório) Icelandic: smáorð (is) n. Interlingua: particula (ia) Japanese: 助詞 (ja) (じょし, joshi), 助辞 (ja) (じょじ, joji), てにをは (ja) (teniowa) Korean: 조사 (ko) (josa)

Lojban: cmavo (jbo) Norwegian: partikkel (no) Polish: partykuła (pl) f. Portuguese: partícula (pt) f. Russian: частица (ru) (častíca) f. Scottish Gaelic: mion-fhacal (gd) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: чѐстица (sh) f. Roman: čèstica (sh) f. Slovak: častica (sk) f. Spanish: partícula (es) f. Swedish: partikel (sv) c. Turkish: edat (tr), ilgeç (tr)

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Breton: rannig f. -où pl (1,2,3) Esperanto: partiklo Interlingua: particula (1)

Italian: particella f. (1, 2, 3), briciolo, granello, grano Swedish: partikel c. (1,2) Telugu: రేణువు (reaNuvu) (1)