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particle
 
Noun particle has 3 senses
  1. atom, molecule, particle, corpuscle, mote, speck - (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
    --1 is a kind of material, stuff
    --1 has particulars: grain; chylomicron; flyspeck
  2. particle - a body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions
    --2 is a kind of     body
    --2 has particulars:
     virion; alpha particle; beta particle; boson; deuteron; elementary particle, fundamental particle, subatomic particle; fermion; ion; magnetic monopole; micelle; prion; virino; scintilla; superstring; thermion
  3. particle - a function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbs
    --3 is a kind of     function word, closed-class word
participatory participe participen participer participial participial verb participle particle-smashing particle particle accelerator particle beam particle board particle physics particles particolored particolored buckeye particoloured

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