particle
粒子,颗粒,微粒,颗粒物
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Definitions
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- : a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit: a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence.
- : Physics. one of the extremely small constituents of matter, as an atom or nucleus.an elementary particle, quark, or gluon.a body in which the internal motion is negligible.
- : a clause or article, as of a document.
- : Grammar. one of the major form classes, or parts of speech, consisting of words that are neither nouns nor verbs, or of all uninflected words, or the like.such a word.a small word of functional or relational use, as an article, preposition, or conjunction, whether of a separate form class or not.
- : Roman Catholic Church. a small piece of the Host given to each lay communicant in a Eucharistic service.
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Examples
The butter coating the particles of flour prevents clumps from forming, compared with adding flour by itself.
When just the receiving manikin wore the double mask, it was protected from 83 percent of particles.
While it’s clear that nowhere is safe from this cloud of microplastics, research into the human health impacts of the particles has been relatively scant.
Philadelphia had the lowest average particle concentration of any city, at 112 micrograms per cubic meter.
France has mandated its citizens wear masks that block more than 90 percent of airborne particles in public places.
Indeed, many cutting-edge physicians are manipulating the diet to lower particle number.
When the Higgs particle was discovered, everywhere I went I heard people wondering about its significance.
After episodes of not-so-subtly mentioning the particle accelerator at S.T.A.R Labs, we finally get what we want.
After eight episodes of not-so-subtly mentioning the particle accelerator at S.T.A.R Labs, we finally get what we want.
For 50 years, scientists had predicted the existence of the particle we now know as Higgs boson, which gives mass to matter.
This, as a piece of pure economics, does not interest the individual employer a particle.
I can tell you, my dear idealist—you have not changed a particle, by the way—that there is another side you have never seen.
Let us conceive a particle of air situated immediately over the earth's polar axis.
Then let us imagine the particle moving toward the equator with the speed of an ordinary wind.
It was a hair-raising problem, too, and called for every ounce of nerve and every particle of skill the boy possessed.