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

Arts, entertainment, and media

 * Particle (band), a 2000 jam band from Los Angeles, California
 * Particle (film), a 2012 Turkish film
 * Particles (film), a 2019 French film
 * "Particles" (song), a 2021 single by Jessica Simpson

Computing

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

Other uses

 * Grammatical particle, a function word