Engelsk navneord: particle |
1. | particle (om masse el. substans) (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything |
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| Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | atom, corpuscle, molecule, mote, speck |
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| Mindre specifikke termer | material, stuff |
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| Mere specifikke termer | chylomicron, flyspeck, grain, grinding, identification particle |
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2. | particle (om ting) a body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions |
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| Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | subatomic particle |
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| Mindre specifikke termer | body |
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| Mere specifikke termer | alpha particle, beta particle, boson, deuteron, elementary particle, fermion, fundamental particle, ion, magnetic monopole, micelle, prion, scintilla, superstring, thermion, virino, virion |
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3. | particle (om kommunikation) a function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbs |
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| Mindre specifikke termer | closed-class word, function word |
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