dust mote
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.62 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "With time running out, the complex compass he had first imagined was jettisoned in favor of a simpler, more achievable effect: artisans at Digital Domain added digital particles to previously shot footage, making the images emitting from the clockwork mechanism look as if they were composed of magical dust motes."
- "A high-octane debate has broken out among the world’s physicists about what would happen if you jumped into a black hole, a fearsome gravitational monster that can swallow matter, energy and even light. You would die, of course, but how? Crushed smaller than a dust mote by monstrous gravity, as astronomers and science fiction writers have been telling us for decades?"
- "It’s at this point that the legend of Shakespeare and Company gains life; the residue of its patrons’ most brilliant ideas settling on the books like dust motes."