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dust motes

dust motes is the plural of dust mote.

Meaning of dust mote

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...

Questions about dust motes

What is dust motes the plural of?
Dust motes is the plural of dust mote.

Words near dust motes in the dictionary

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

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