A particle in the physical sciences is a small localized object to which physical properties can be ascribed.
Particle may also refer to:
Science
- Particle (ecology), in marine and freshwater ecology, a small object
- Colloidal particle, part of a one-phase system of two or more components where the particles aren't individually visible
- Particle, the solid or liquid particles in an aerosol
- Granular material
- Particulates, in the areas of atmospheric physics and air pollution
- Nanoparticle, an object between 1 and 100 nanometers that behaves as a whole
- Point particle, or point mass, an idealization of an object with finite mass but of zero size
- A particle of a medium in continuum mechanics, meaning an infinitesimal portion of it.
- Self-propelled particles, a concept used in statistical physics to model swarms
- Subatomic particle:
- Elementary particle, or fundamental particle, a particle of which other particles are composed
- Particle physics, the study of subatomic particles
- See list of particles for more uses
- Suspended solids, in a liquid
Arts, entertainment, and media
- Particle (band), a 2000 jam band from Los Angeles, California
- Particle (film), a 2012 Turkish film
- Particles (film), a 2019 French film
- "Particles" (song), a 2021 single by Jessica Simpson
Computing
- Particle, a US HTML5 web app company acquired by Apple in 2012
- Particle system, in computer graphics, a technique to simulate certain fuzzy phenomena
Other uses
- Grammatical particle, a function word
See also
- Particulate (disambiguation)
- Particle size (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles beginning with particle
- All pages with titles containing particle
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