Usually means: Basic unit of matter, energy.
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  1. particle: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. particle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. particle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. particle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. particle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Particle, particle: Wordnik
  7. particle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. particle: Wiktionary
  9. particle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. particle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. particle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. particle: Dictionary.com
  13. particle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. particle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Particle (band), Particle (disambiguation), Particle (ecology), Particle (film), Particle (grammar), Particle (linguistics), Particle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Particle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. particle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. particle: Rhymezone
  19. particle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. particle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. particle: Free Dictionary
  22. particle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. particle: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. particle: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  3. Particle: Lexicon of Linguistics

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  1. particle: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Particle (physics), particle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Particle (physics), particle: Medical dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Misunderstood Physics Terms (No longer online)
  2. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Particle: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  4. -Particle, Particle: Extragalactic Astronomy
  5. particle: UNCChem Glossary
  6. Accelerator Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.
noun:  (physics) Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle.
noun:  (linguistics) A part of speech that has no inherent lexical definition but must be associated with another word to impart meaning, often a grammatical category: for example, the English word to in a full infinitive phrase (to eat) or O in a vocative phrase (O Canada), or as a discourse marker (mmm).
noun:  (linguistics) A part of speech which cannot be inflected.
noun:  (Christianity) In the Roman Catholic church, a crumb of consecrated bread; also the smaller breads used in the communion of the laity.
noun:  A little bit.

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