particle
noun
a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit.
particles
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pluralof particle.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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It comes amid mounting concern about the long-term health impacts of these ubiquitous particles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Ninety percent of those particles were small enough to qualify as nanoplastics, which are small enough to cross the blood-brain barrier and be absorbed into human cells.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
When soil becomes saturated with moisture, water fills many of the tiny spaces between soil particles, making it more difficult for gases to move through them.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
Instead of disappearing, these materials gradually fragment into increasingly smaller particles, including microplastics and nanoplastics.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
This was important in the long term, because in the nineteenth century it would provide a definitive test of whether light does travel as a wave or whether it travels as a stream of particles.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
