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Besides its common definition, '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:

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★ Elementary particle, a particle of which larger particles are composed, also called a ''fundamental particle''

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★ Composite particle, a bound state between several elementary particles

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★ Point particle, an idealized particle that does not have any volume

★ ''See also list of particles''
'In other contexts':

★ Particle (ecology), in marine and freshwater ecology, a small object

★ Grammatical particle, in linguistics, a useful catch-all lacking a strict definition

★ Particle system, in computer graphics, a technique to simulate certain fuzzy phenomena

★ Particle (band), a 2000 jam band from Los Angeles, California

★ Particle Man, the hero of a song by They Might Be Giants

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★ Granular material

★ Food Particles