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dust mote

dust mote noun: a mote or speck of dust.

Noun

dust mote (plural dust motes)

  1. A mote or speck of dust.
    • With time running out, the complex compass he had first imagined was jettisoned in favor of a simpler, more achievable effect: artisans at Digital Domain added digital particles to previously shot footage, making the images emitting from the clockwork mechanism look as if they were composed of...2007 December 9, Ron Magid, “Effects go with the flow to keep ‘Compass’ on course”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...
    • A high-octane debate has broken out among the world’s physicists about what would happen if you jumped into a black hole, a fearsome gravitational monster that can swallow matter, energy and even light. You would die, of course, but how? Crushed smaller than a dust mote by monstrous gravity, as...2013 August 13, Dennis Overbye, “A Black Hole Mystery Wrapped in a Firewall Paradox”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13...

Examples of dust mote in a sentence

  • Crushed smaller than a dust mote by monstrous gravity, as astronomers and science fiction writers have been telling us for decades?2013 August 13, Dennis Overbye, “A Black Hole Mystery Wrapped in a Firewall Paradox”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York...
  • It’s at this point that the legend of Shakespeare and Company gains life; the residue of its patrons’ most brilliant ideas settling on the books like dust motes.2019 November 15, Hannah Williams, “100 years of Shakespeare and Company: how a bookshop became a Paris landmark”, in Katharine Viner...

Forms of dust mote

pluraldust motes
alternative formdustmote

Questions about dust mote

What does dust mote mean?
Dust mote means a mote or speck of dust.
How do you use dust mote in a sentence?
Crushed smaller than a dust mote by monstrous gravity, as astronomers and science fiction writers have been telling us for decades?
What part of speech is dust mote?
Dust mote is a noun.
What is the plural of dust mote?
The plural of dust mote is dust motes.

Words near dust mote in the dictionary

  1. dust mask
  2. dust masks
  3. dust mice
  4. dust mite
  5. dust mites
  6. dust mote
  7. dust motes
  8. dust mouse
  9. dust off
  10. dust off a batter
  11. dust off the cobwebs

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