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单词 particle
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Definition of particle in English:

particle

noun ˈpɑːtɪk(ə)lˈpɑrdək(ə)l
  • 1A minute portion of matter.

    颗粒,微粒

    tiny particles of dust

    细微的尘埃。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • His entire body was caked with minute particles of dried salt, and it was beginning to drive his Sentinel sense of touch off the irritation scale.
    • If you want to do a little more thinking, start with particles of matter.
    • So therefore some particles of matter would survive that annihilation.
    • Uncatchables were like magnets for loose electrons, and whenever they became solid, it was because they had attracted all of the minute particles of matter in the area towards them.
    • For Lavoisier, questions about the invisible particles of matter were irrelevant to chemistry's aims.
    • I would like to tell the member that lead is a naturally occurring substance, and that there are probably minute trace elements and particles of lead in most of the things that we consume.
    • Descartes viewed the world around him as particles of matter and explained natural phenomena through their motion and mechanical interactions.
    • Cloud seeding is a snowmaking technique that discharges minute particles of a chemical called iodide into winter storm clouds to create snow.
    • And in those experiments we see particles of matter and particles of anti-matter emerging in perfect balance every time.
    • When the universe expands, the particles of matter dilute, or take up less space in a given volume.
    • The medical evidence was that pneumoconiosis is caused by a gradual accumulation in the lungs of minute particles of silica inhaled over a period of years.
    • Direct copying of qubits is prohibited by the rules of quantum mechanics, nature's instruction book for the smallest particles of matter.
    • Raw coal also contains moisture and solid particles of mineral matter (ash).
    • He wondered why the atmosphere was not a sandwich, with the densest gas at the bottom, and began thinking about the nature of the particles of matter.
    • She would have to break up her body into small particles of matter.
    • Nanochips are integrated circuits so small that individual particles of matter play major roles.
    • It is true that Newton did suggest that if we could know the forces that operate on the minute particles of matter, we could understand why macroscopic processes occur in the ways they do.
    • Here, he asserts that ultimate components of reality are ‘events’, not particles of matter.
    • Symmetries are just as interesting and equally important at the other end of the scale, among the primary particles of matter.
    • The springs' colors changed, too, as minute particles of broken rock muddied the waters.
    Synonyms
    bit, tiny bit, piece, tiny piece, speck, spot, fleck, dot, atom, molecule
    mote, fragment, sliver, splinter
    1. 1.1Physics Any of numerous subatomic constituents of the physical world that interact with each other, including electrons, neutrinos, photons, and alpha particles.
      〔物理〕粒子
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Counting photons, particles that carry electromagnetic energy including X-rays, was critical to this discovery.
      • Later it was found that the atoms are composed of particles (neutrons, electrons etc).
      • In addition, they must consider the electrons not as particles, but as quantum mechanical waves.
      • Its output of particles (electrons, protons, ions and atomic nuclei) is approximately one million tonnes per second.
      • Electrical power can be related to the Planck constant, defined as the ratio between the frequency of an electromagnetic particle such as a photon of light and its energy.
    2. 1.2Mathematics A hypothetical object having mass but no physical size.
      〔数〕质点
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The isochrone, or curve of constant descent, is the curve along which a particle will descend under gravity from any point to the bottom in exactly the same time, no matter what the starting point.
      • At that time he made the claim, for the first time, that the particle had zero mass.
      • In 1687 Leibniz asked for the curve along which a particle may descend under gravity so that it moves equal vertical distances in equal times.
      • The view which I am so bold to put forth considers radiation as a high species of vibration in the lines of force which are known to connect particles, and also masses of matter together.
      • A mechanism which gives mass to the particles by allowing them to interact with a field was first suggested by Peter Higgs.
  • 2with negative The least possible amount.

    极小量

    he agrees without hearing the least particle of evidence

    他一点证言都没有听就同意了。

    Synonyms
    iota, jot, whit, bit, scrap, shred, crumb, morsel, mite, atom, drop, hint, touch, trace, suggestion, whisper, suspicion, scintilla, grain, tittle, jot or tittle
    any
    Irish stim
    informal smidgen, smidge, tad
    archaic scantling, scruple
  • 3Grammar
    (in English) any of the class of words such as in, up, off, over, used with verbs to make phrasal verbs.

    (英语中与动词连用构成短语动词的)小品词,语助词

    Example sentencesExamples
    • If no special emphasis is employed, the adverbial particle in a phrasal verb proper is stressed: to píck úp a bóok/píck a bóok úp.
    • Hiragana are used in writing verb endings, adverbs, conjunctions, and various sentence particles and are written in a cursive, smooth style.
    • Maybe, as a result of this, sentences occasionally miss main verbs or particles get mislaid, but blogging is Hell, soldier.
    • The third shared feature is that where there is more than one particle accompanying a verb, the particles always have a fixed order before the verb: tense-mood-aspect.
    • Such adverbs are sometimes called prepositional adverbs, sometimes adverbial particles.
    1. 3.1 (in ancient Greek) any of a class of words used for contrast and emphasis, such as de and ge.
      (古希腊语中表示对比和强调的)小品词,虚词
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Such a particle would generally be included in a grammar in a post-compositional pragmatic component, but, surprisingly, like also affects basic semantic attributes.
      • These are considered particles and they're placed at the end of a sentence, usually to signify a certain attitudinal meaning or intonation.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin particula 'little part', diminutive of pars, part-.

Rhymes

article, nanoparticle

Definition of particle in US English:

particle

nounˈpärdək(ə)lˈpɑrdək(ə)l
  • 1A minute portion of matter.

    颗粒,微粒

    tiny particles of dust

    细微的尘埃。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He wondered why the atmosphere was not a sandwich, with the densest gas at the bottom, and began thinking about the nature of the particles of matter.
    • Here, he asserts that ultimate components of reality are ‘events’, not particles of matter.
    • Symmetries are just as interesting and equally important at the other end of the scale, among the primary particles of matter.
    • Cloud seeding is a snowmaking technique that discharges minute particles of a chemical called iodide into winter storm clouds to create snow.
    • Descartes viewed the world around him as particles of matter and explained natural phenomena through their motion and mechanical interactions.
    • It is true that Newton did suggest that if we could know the forces that operate on the minute particles of matter, we could understand why macroscopic processes occur in the ways they do.
    • When the universe expands, the particles of matter dilute, or take up less space in a given volume.
    • Uncatchables were like magnets for loose electrons, and whenever they became solid, it was because they had attracted all of the minute particles of matter in the area towards them.
    • Direct copying of qubits is prohibited by the rules of quantum mechanics, nature's instruction book for the smallest particles of matter.
    • Raw coal also contains moisture and solid particles of mineral matter (ash).
    • For Lavoisier, questions about the invisible particles of matter were irrelevant to chemistry's aims.
    • His entire body was caked with minute particles of dried salt, and it was beginning to drive his Sentinel sense of touch off the irritation scale.
    • She would have to break up her body into small particles of matter.
    • The medical evidence was that pneumoconiosis is caused by a gradual accumulation in the lungs of minute particles of silica inhaled over a period of years.
    • The springs' colors changed, too, as minute particles of broken rock muddied the waters.
    • If you want to do a little more thinking, start with particles of matter.
    • So therefore some particles of matter would survive that annihilation.
    • Nanochips are integrated circuits so small that individual particles of matter play major roles.
    • I would like to tell the member that lead is a naturally occurring substance, and that there are probably minute trace elements and particles of lead in most of the things that we consume.
    • And in those experiments we see particles of matter and particles of anti-matter emerging in perfect balance every time.
    1. 1.1with negative The least possible amount.
      极小量
      he agrees without hearing the least particle of evidence

      他一点证言都没有听就同意了。

    2. 1.2Physics
      another term for subatomic particle
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In addition, they must consider the electrons not as particles, but as quantum mechanical waves.
      • Electrical power can be related to the Planck constant, defined as the ratio between the frequency of an electromagnetic particle such as a photon of light and its energy.
      • Counting photons, particles that carry electromagnetic energy including X-rays, was critical to this discovery.
      • Its output of particles (electrons, protons, ions and atomic nuclei) is approximately one million tonnes per second.
      • Later it was found that the atoms are composed of particles (neutrons, electrons etc).
    3. 1.3Mathematics A hypothetical object having mass but no physical size.
      〔数〕质点
      Example sentencesExamples
      • At that time he made the claim, for the first time, that the particle had zero mass.
      • In 1687 Leibniz asked for the curve along which a particle may descend under gravity so that it moves equal vertical distances in equal times.
      • The isochrone, or curve of constant descent, is the curve along which a particle will descend under gravity from any point to the bottom in exactly the same time, no matter what the starting point.
      • The view which I am so bold to put forth considers radiation as a high species of vibration in the lines of force which are known to connect particles, and also masses of matter together.
      • A mechanism which gives mass to the particles by allowing them to interact with a field was first suggested by Peter Higgs.
  • 2Grammar
    (in English) any of the class of words such as in, up, off, over, used with verbs to make phrasal verbs.

    (英语中与动词连用构成短语动词的)小品词,语助词

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Such adverbs are sometimes called prepositional adverbs, sometimes adverbial particles.
    • Hiragana are used in writing verb endings, adverbs, conjunctions, and various sentence particles and are written in a cursive, smooth style.
    • If no special emphasis is employed, the adverbial particle in a phrasal verb proper is stressed: to píck úp a bóok/píck a bóok úp.
    • Maybe, as a result of this, sentences occasionally miss main verbs or particles get mislaid, but blogging is Hell, soldier.
    • The third shared feature is that where there is more than one particle accompanying a verb, the particles always have a fixed order before the verb: tense-mood-aspect.
    1. 2.1 (in ancient Greek) any of the class of words such as de and ge, used for contrast and emphasis.
      (英语中与动词连用构成短语动词的)小品词,语助词
      Example sentencesExamples
      • These are considered particles and they're placed at the end of a sentence, usually to signify a certain attitudinal meaning or intonation.
      • Such a particle would generally be included in a grammar in a post-compositional pragmatic component, but, surprisingly, like also affects basic semantic attributes.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin particula ‘little part’, diminutive of pars, part-.

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