User Contributed Dictionary
- Plural of particle
Extensive Definition
Besides its common definition, particle may refer
to:
In chemistry:
- Colloidal particle, part of a one-phase system of two or more components
- Subatomic
particle, which may be either:
- Elementary particle, a particle of which larger particles are composed, also called a fundamental particle
- Composite particle, a bound state between several elementary particles
- Point particle, an idealized particle that does not have any volume
- See also list of particles
In other contexts:
- Particle (ecology), in marine and freshwater ecology, a small object
- Particulate matter, in the areas of atmospheric physics and air pollution
- Grammatical particle, in linguistics, a useful catch-all lacking a strict definition
- Particle system, in computer graphics, a technique to simulate certain fuzzy phenomena
- Particle (band), a 2000 jam band from Los Angeles, California
See also
particles in Arabic: جسيم
particles in Catalan: Partícula
particles in Czech: Částice (rozcestník)
particles in Welsh: Gronyn
particles in Danish: Partikel
particles in German: Partikel
particles in Modern Greek (1453-):
Σωματίδιο
particles in Spanish: Partícula
particles in French: Particule
particles in Galician: Partícula
particles in Korean: 입자
particles in Ido: Partikulo
particles in Indonesian: Partikel
particles in Italian: Particella
particles in Hebrew: חלקיק
particles in Lithuanian: Dalelė
particles in Japanese: 粒子
particles in Polish: Cząstka
particles in Russian: Частица
particles in Finnish:
Partikkeli