English-French translations for particle

• particule
  En fait, il faudrait que tout le monde dispose de "plans particules". In fact, everyone will have to have 'particle plans'.
  par écrit. - (PL) Les matériaux composés de particules mesurant moins de 10-9 mètres sont appelés nanomatériaux. Materials made of particles which measure less than 10-9 m are called nanomaterials.
  Pourtant les effets délétères des particules fines sur la santé constituent une réalité. Yet the harmful effect of fine particles on health is a fact.

Definition of particle

• A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.
• A word that has a particular grammatical function but does not obviously belong to any particular part of speech, such as the word ''to'in English infinitives or ''O'as a vocative particle
• A part of speech which cannot be inflected: an adverb, preposition, conjunction or interjection
• In the Roman Catholic church, a crumb of consecrated bread; also the smaller breads used in the communion of the laity

Synonyms

• p-word

Related words

• antiparticle
• nanoparticle
• sparticle
• β-particle
• quasiparticle
• particleboard
• pseudoparticle
• astroparticle
• α-particle