Particle
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Particle may refer to:
In chemistry:
- Colloidal particle, part of a one-phase system of two or more components where the particles aren't individually visible.
In physics:
- Subatomic particle, which may be either:
- Composite particle, a bound state between several elementary particles
- Elementary particle, a particle of which larger particles are composed, also called a fundamental particle
In other contexts:
- Grammatical particle, a function word not assignable to any of the major word classes
- Particle (band), a 2000 jam band from Los Angeles, California
- Particle (ecology), in marine and freshwater ecology, a small object
- Particle (nanotechnology), a small object that behaves as a whole unit in terms of its transport and properties
- Particle system, in computer graphics, a technique to simulate certain fuzzy phenomena
- Particulate matter, in the areas of atmospheric physics and air pollution
- Project Article, technical abbreviation in project management software for a project item
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