OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 4444

particle

/ˈpɑːtɪk(ə)l/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
partícula
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…
Not every exasperated petty bourgeois could have become Hitler, but a particle of Hitler is lodged in every exasperated petty bourgeois.
partícula
Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle.
The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.
What, he asked himself, does quantum theory have to say about the familiar properties of particles such as position?
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