| 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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