Particle means: A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something. Related words include atom or body. Below you'll find 20 example sentences showing how to use Particle in practice.
Particle in a sentence
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Particle meaning
- A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.
- Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle.
- 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).
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Example sentences (20)
Each particle in the Standard Model would have a superpartner whose spin differs by 1/2 from the ordinary particle.
When a neutrino bangs into another particle, it usually produces a charged particle that corresponds with its flavor.
EM radiation exhibits both wave properties and particle properties at the same time (see wave-particle duality ).
The distance to the point where the charged particle has lost all its energy is called the range of the particle.
The wave function of a particle gives the probability amplitude of finding a particle within a given region of space.
Also, the exact momentum of particle A can be measured, so the exact momentum of particle B can be worked out.
If we can tell which particle is which, there are different configurations, since each particle can be in or independently.
A particle is in equilibrium only if the resultant of all forces acting on the particle is equal to zero.
Changing basis for a spin-1/2 particle A stationary spin-½ particle has a two-dimensional Hilbert space.
A subwavelength particle is a particle smaller than the wavelength of light with which it interacts (see Rayleigh scattering ).
Particle radiation is referred to as a particle beam if the particles are all moving in the same direction, similar to a light beam.
Equation (SI units) seeAlso Charged particle Lorentz force F on a charged particle (of charge q) in motion (instantaneous velocity v).
The equivalent diameter is the diameter of a spherical particle with the same value of some physical property as the irregular particle.
The photosphere has a particle density of ~10 23 m −3 (about 0.37% of the particle number per volume of Earth's atmosphere at sea level).
Energy levels The energy of a particle in a box (black circles) and a free particle (grey line) both depend upon wavenumber in the same way.
For instance, the above 3-particle state is denoted as : An N-particle state belongs to a space of states describing systems of N particles.
These are both related to the total energy of the particle by the expression : which is known as the dispersion relation for a free particle.
However, this behavior gives rise to paradoxical effects: any measurement of a property of a particle can be seen as acting on that particle (e.
If the particles are separated and one particle's quantum state is observed, the other particle's quantum state is determined instantaneously (i.
He found that e/m for a beta particle is the same as for Thomson’s electron, and therefore suggested that the beta particle is in fact an electron.
Common combinations with particle
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the particle 53×
- particle is 22×
- of particle 22×
- particle physics 17×
- particle in 13×
- and particle 10×
- particle size 10×
- particle and 9×
- particle accelerators 9×
- one particle 8×
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