pellet
English
Etymology
From Old French pelote (“small ball”), from Vulgar Latin *pilotta, diminutive of Latin pila (“ball”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pellet (plural pellets)
- A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
- a pellet of wood, paper, or ore
- A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
- Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls. Serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.
- (heraldry) A roundel sable (black circular spot; also called ogress).
- One of the short conductive tubes in a Pelletron particle accelerator.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Catalan: pèl·let
Translations
A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter
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A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns
Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls
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Verb
pellet (third-person singular simple present pellets, present participle pelleting, simple past and past participle pelleted)
- To form into pellets.
- Synonym: pelletize
- To strike with pellets.
Further reading
- “pellet”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Finnish
Noun
pellet
German
Verb
pellet
- (deprecated template usage) Second-person plural subjunctive I of pellen.
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) pellet
Spanish
Noun
pellet m (plural pellets)
- pellet (projectile)
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