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noun(nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
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nouna body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions
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Definition that contains particle
- and A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence.
- than A particle expressing comparison, used after certain adjectives and adverbs which express comparison or diversity, as more, better, other, otherwise, and the like. It is usually followed by the object compared in the nominative case. Sometimes, however, the object compared is placed in the objective case, and than is then considered by some grammarians as a preposition. Sometimes the object is expressed in a sentence, usually introduced by that.
- fine of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles
- b (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter
- small have fine or very small constituent particles
- smoke emit a cloud of fine particles
- smoke a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion
- smoke a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas
- wearing (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)
- nor A negative connective or particle, introducing the second member or clause of a negative proposition, following neither, or not, in the first member or clause (as or in affirmative propositions follows either). Nor is also used sometimes in the first member for neither, and sometimes the neither is omitted and implied by the use of nor.