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Word: particle (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A body with very small size; a fragment.
  • linguistics 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.
  • physics An elementary particle or subatomic particle.

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