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particle

Meaning

  1. A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.
  2. Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle.
  3. 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).
  4. A part of speech which cannot be inflected.
  5. In the Roman Catholic church, a crumb of consecrated bread; also the smaller breads used in the communion of the laity.
  6. A little bit.

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpɑːtɪk(ə)l/

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