Particle (disambiguation)

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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