Particle may refer to:

In chemistry:

• Colloidal particle, part of a one-phase system of two or more components

In physics:

• Subatomic particle, which may be either:
  • Composite particle, a bound state between several elementary particles
  • Elementary particle, a particle of which larger particles are composed, also called a fundamental particle

In other contexts:

• Grammatical particle, a function word not assignable to any of the major word classes
• Particle (band), a 2000 jam band from Los Angeles, California
• Particle (ecology), in marine and freshwater ecology, a small object
• Particle (nanotechnology), a small object that behaves as a whole unit in terms of its transport and properties
• Particle system, in computer graphics, a technique to simulate certain fuzzy phenomena
• Particulate matter, in the areas of atmospheric physics and air pollution
• Project Article, technical abbreviation in project management software for a project item

[ See also

• Granular material

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