Particle (disambiguation)

A particle in the physical sciences is a small localized object to which can be ascribed physical properties.

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 unit
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

Particle, a US HTML5 web app company acquired by Apple in 2012
Particle system, in computer graphics, a technique to simulate certain fuzzy phenomena

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