páirteagal — meaning in English
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English meaning
- particle noun A very small piece or amount of matter.
Senses
páirteagal is used for these senses in English:
- particle (physics) Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle. [from 19th c.]
- particle (grammar) 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).
particle — full definition
- noun A very small piece or amount of matter.
- noun In physics, a tiny piece of matter smaller than an atom, such as an electron or proton.
- noun In grammar, a small word, like "to" or "up," that helps form a phrase but has little meaning on its own.