Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

subatomic particle

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.56 in modern English

Syllables: sub-atomic -par-ti-cle
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

5

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of many units of matter smaller than an atom.

Example Sentences

"We humans are so stuck in the middle of the cosmic scales — in average height, one-hundredth of one-septillionth (10^-24) the size of the observable universe, and with typical life spans of a couple octillion attoseconds. And an attosecond is an eternity compared with the lifetime of the elusive Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that exists for one-thousandth of an attosecond before decaying."

Inflected Forms

subatomic particles (plural)

Phrases

elementary particle fundamental particle :Appendix:Subatomic particles

Frequently Paired Words

antiparticle baryon boson electron elementary particle fermion fundamental particle hadron

Synonyms

subatomic particle particle

Questions

What does subatomic particle mean?: Any of many units of matter smaller than an atom.

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