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noun (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
noun a body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions
noun a function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbs
originFrom Middle French particule, and its source, Latin particula (“small part, particle”), diminutive of pars (“part, piece”). Semantically displaced native Old English grot whence modern English groat.
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