Associations to the word «Particle»

PARTICLE, noun. A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something. [from 14th c.]

PARTICLE, noun. (linguistics) (sensu lato) A part of speech which can not be inflected, an adverb, preposition, conjunction or interjection

PARTICLE, noun. (linguistics) (sensu stricto) 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.

PARTICLE, noun. (physics) Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle. [from 19th c.]

PARTICLE ACCELERATOR, noun. A device that accelerates electrically charged particles to extremely high speeds, for the purpose of inducing high energy reactions or producing high energy radiation.

PARTICLE ACCELERATORS, noun. Plural of particle accelerator

PARTICLE BEAM, noun. (physics) A beam of atoms, ions or subatomic particles that has been accelerated by some device and collimated by magnets and/or electrostatic lenses

PARTICLE BOARD, noun. (US) (Canada) a structural material manufactured from wood particles (such as chips and shavings) by pressing, and binding through resin

PARTICLE BOARDS, noun. Plural of particle board

PARTICLE ENERGIES, noun. Plural of particle energy

PARTICLE ENERGY, noun. (physics) The sum of a particle's potential energy, kinetic energy and rest energy

PARTICLE HORIZON, noun. A cosmological horizon

PARTICLE HORIZONS, noun. Plural of particle horizon

PARTICLE MECHANICS, noun. (physics) The study of the motion of individual particles.

PARTICLE PHYSICS, noun. A branch of physics that studies the elementary constituents of matter and radiation, and the interactions between them.

PARTICLE THEORY, noun. (dated) atomic theory

PARTICLE ZOO, noun. (physics) (informal) The extensive list of known elementary particles.

PARTICLE, noun. (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything.

PARTICLE, noun. A body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions.

PARTICLE, noun. A function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbs.