Definition of Particles

1. Noun. (plural of particle) ¹

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Definition of Particles

1. particle [n] - See also: particle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Particles

participles
particle
particle accelerator
particle accelerators
particle beam
particle board
particle boards
particle energies
particle energy
particle fluence
particle mechanics
particle physics
particle theory
particleboard
particleboards
particles
particolored
particolored buckeye
particoloured
particular
particular(a)
particular Church
particular Churches
particular integral
particular integrals
particularisation
particularisations
particularise
particularised
particularises

Literary usage of Particles

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1909)
"In 1827 the English botanist Brown observed by means of a microscope that minute particles like spores of plants introduced into a fluid were always in a ..."

2. Physical Optics by Robert Williams Wood (1914)
"OPTICAL RESONANCE Scattering of Light by Small Particles. — If a beam of light is passed through a transparent medium containing in suspension small ..."

3. An essay concerning human understanding by John Locke (1823)
"Y0ur lordship says, (a)' That you do not say the same particles of matter, which the sinner had at the very time of the commission of his sins, ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1916)
"While for lyophobic colloids large particles have positive surface tension, and this only becomes zero for very small particles. ..."

5. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"The properties of soil particles and the plasticity of soils. ... The finest particles were obtained by sedimentation in '¡de low glass cylinders by ..."

6. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"Latex could also be seen near the serosal surface of Peyer's patches from mice of Groups D and E, often in aggregates of 15 to 25 particles. ..."

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