particle

名词 n.
/ˈpɑːtɪkl̩/    /ˈpɑɹtək(ə)l/|[-ɾə-]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.
    — Be content with the knowledge that, ere the voyage had ended, both she and I were desperately and unreasoningly in love with one another. Heaven knows that I can make the admission now without one particle of vanity.
  2. Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle.
    — What, he asked himself, does quantum theory have to say about the familiar properties of particles such as position?
  3. 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).
    — In English there is no grammatical device to differentiate predicational judgments from nonpredicational descriptions. This distinction does cast a shadow on the grammatical sphere to some extent, but recognition of it must generally be made in semantic terms. It is maintained here that in Japanese, on the other hand, the distinction is grammatically realized through the use of the two particles wa and ga.
  4. A part of speech which cannot be inflected.
    — 322. The parts of speech which are neither declined nor conjugated, are called by the general name of particles. 323. They are adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
  5. In the Roman Catholic church, a crumb of consecrated bread; also the smaller breads used in the communion of the laity.
  6. A little bit.
    — "That doesn't make a particle of difference", replied Charlotte. "Not a particle."

词形变化

particles plural

词汇关系

衍生词
adparticle adverbial particle alpha particle angel particle antiparticle anti-particle astroparticle beta particle bioparticle cascade particle charged-particle charged particle composite particle cosmoparticle delta particle Dirac particle ferroparticle fundamental particle gamma particle geoparticle God particle gravitationally interacting massive particle Higgs particle Hitler particle holoparticle hot particle immunoparticle infraparticle interparticle intraparticle J/psi particle Janus particle K-particle lambda particle lipoviroparticle macroparticle Majorana particle microparticle monoparticle multiparticle multi-particle nanoparticle nobiliary particle Oh-My-God particle OMG particle paraparticle particle accelerator particle-antiparticle particle beam particle-board particle board particled particle decay particle energy particle horizon particle mechanics particle physics particle shower particle statistics particle theory particle verb particle zoo Planck particle point particle pseudoparticle psi particle quasiparticle radioparticle retroparticle ribonucleoparticle sentence-final particle solar energetic particle sparticle strongly interacting massive particle subparticle superparticle super weakly interacting massive particle supraparticle tau particle ultrafine particle unparticle upsilon particle virtual particle V particle wave-particle wave-particle duality wavicle weakly interacting massive particle W particle X17 particle Z particle α-particle β-particle

词源

From Middle French particule, and its source, Latin particula (“small part, particle”), diminutive of pars (“part, piece”). Semantically displaced native Old English grot whence modern English groat.
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