Plural of particle

Forms of particle

Particles in a sentence

• What, he asked himself, does quantum theory have to say about the familiar properties of particles such as position?2011, Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw, The Quantum Universe, Allen Lane, published 2011, page 55
• The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 146
• The physicist used his conjecture about subatomic particles to design an experiment.From the entry conjecture
• Any N95 respirator is designed to filter out 95 percent of particles 0.3 microns or larger.From the entry respirator
• Quantum physics suggests that certain states of subatomic particles are metrogenic: indeterminable until fixed by measurement.From the entry metrogenic

Meaning of particle

1. noun A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.
2. noun Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle.
3. noun 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).

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Questions about the plural of particle

What is the plural of particle?

The plural of particle is particles.

Is particle countable?

Particle is a countable noun.