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hiukkanen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • corpuscle noun A minute particle; an atom; a molecule.
  • mite noun A tiny eight-legged creature related to ticks, often too small to see clearly.
  • mote noun A small particle; a speck.
  • particle noun A very small piece or amount of matter.
  • smidgen noun Chiefly in the form a smidgen of: a very small amount or quantity; a bit, a trace.
  • speck noun A very small spot, mark, or particle.
  • tittle noun Any small dot, stroke, or diacritical mark, especially if part of a letter, or of a letter-like abbreviation; in particular, the dots over the Latin letters i and j.
  • trifle noun A British dessert layered with sponge cake, custard, fruit, jelly, and whipped cream.
  • whit noun The smallest possible amount; a tiny bit.

Senses

hiukkanen is used for these senses in English:

  • corpuscle A minute particle; an atom; a molecule.
  • mite (sometimes used adverbially) Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle.
  • mote (literary, or, puristic, otherwise, archaic) A small particle; a speck.
  • particle (physics) Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle. [from 19th c.]
  • smidgen Chiefly in the form a smidgen of: a very small amount or quantity; a bit, a trace.
  • speck A very small amount; a particle; a whit.
  • trifle An insignificant amount of money.
  • whit The smallest part or particle imaginable; an iota.

corpuscle — full definition

  1. noun A minute particle; an atom; a molecule.
  2. noun A protoplasmic animal cell; especially, such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are embedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles.

mite — full definition

  1. noun A tiny eight-legged creature related to ticks, often too small to see clearly.
  2. noun A very small amount or a tiny bit of something.

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