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The Collaborative International Dictionary
particulate

particulate \par*tic"u*late\ (p[aum]r*t[i^]k"[-u]*l[asl]t), n. Matter composed of particles; -- often used in the pl.; as, the quantity of particulates in auto exhaust is strictly regulated.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
particulate

1871, from Modern Latin particulatus, from particula (see particle). As a noun from 1960. Related: Particulates.

Wiktionary
particulate

a. 1 Composed of separate particles. 2 (context genetics English) Pertaining to heritable characteristics which are attributable discretely to either one or another of an offspring's parents, rather than a blend of the two. n. Any solid or liquid in a subdivided state, especially one that exhibits special characteristics which are negligible in the bulk material

WordNet
particulate

n. a small discrete mass of solid or liquid matter that remains individually dispersed in gas or liquid emissions (usually considered to be an atmospheric pollutant) [syn: particulate matter]

particulate

adj. composed of distinct particles [ant: nonparticulate]

Wikipedia
Particulate (disambiguation)

A particulate, or atmospheric particulate matter, is microscopic solid or liquid matter suspended in the Earth's atmosphere.

Particulate, particulates or particulate matter may also refer to:

  • Particulate inheritance, a pattern of inheritance in evolutionary biology
  • Suspended solids, particulate matter suspended in liquid

Usage examples of "particulate".

When he arrived, because of the strongly anthropic nature of reality, our perceptions caused his particulate structure to begin decaying, changing toward something approximating our own, and he grew more and more human.

Most of the biological danger of a reactor meltdown comes from alpha radiation emitted by particulate radioisotopes in the air or water.

The high-energy proton spectrpmetry clusters flunked out, too, as did the gravimetric distortion mapping scanner, the fixed angle gamma frequency counter, the wide-angle EM radiation imaging scanner, the quark population analysis counter, the Z-range particulate spectrometry sensor, the low-frequency EM flux sensor, the localized subspace field stress sensor, the parametric subspace field stress sensor, the hydrogen-filter subspace flux scanner, the linear calibration subspace flux sensor, the variable band optical imagining cluster, the virtual aperture graviton flux spectrometer, the high-resolution graviton flux spectrometer, the very low energy graviton spin pola-rimeter, the passive imaging gamma interferometry sensor, the low-level imagining sensor, the virtual particle mapping camera, and even the life-form analysis instrument counter.

Does Parlier, which is 99 percent Hispanic, have dark clouds of particulate matter while five miles away the town of Reedley, which is more white than Mexican-American, enjoys clear blue skies?

We need to turn the waste into useful particulates, soften the Drip pellets into a more manageable effluent, and get the Vissies out of the liquid lines, right?

There is recent sedimentological evidence that past epochs of extensive production of volcanic particulates correspond in time to past epochs of glaciation and low temperatures.

The high-energy proton spectrpmetry clusters flunked out, too, as did the gravimetric distortion mapping scanner, the fixed angle gamma frequency counter, the wide-angle EM radiation imaging scanner, the quark population analysis counter, the Z-range particulate spectrometry sensor, the low-frequency EM flux sensor, the localized subspace field stress sensor, the parametric subspace field stress sensor, the hydrogen-filter subspace flux scanner, the linear calibration subspace flux sensor, the variable band optical imagining cluster, the virtual aperture graviton flux spectrometer, the high-resolution graviton flux spectrometer, the very low energy graviton spin pola-rimeter, the passive imaging gamma interferometry sensor, the low-level imagining sensor, the virtual particle mapping camera, and even the life-form analysis instrument counter.

Prions were particulate and subviral in size, so since certain viruses could be airborne, why not certain prions?

First, you should envision a quantum field as composed of particulate ingredients, such as photons for the electromagnetic field.

From this perspective, any and all occurrences, from the formation of the sun to the crucifixion of Christ, to the motion of your eyes across this word, strictly follow from the precise positions and velocities of the particulate ingredients of the universe a moment after the big bang.

Somehow, temporally separated, individual particulate photons are able to cancel each other out.

And at this conference there had been no strong attempt to organize the posters into hallways by subject matter, so that “Distribution of Rhizocarpon geo-graphicum in the East Charitum Monies,” detailing the high-altitude fortunes of a crustose lichen that could live up to four thousand years, was facing “Origins of Graupel Snow in Saline Particulates Found in Cirrus, Altostratus and Altocumulus Clouds in Cyclonic Vortexes in North Tharsis,” a meteorological study of some importance.

And at this conference there had been no strong attempt to organize the posters into hallways by subject matter, so that "Distribution of Rhizocarpon geo-graphicum in the East Charitum Monies," detailing the high-altitude fortunes of a crustose lichen that could live up to four thousand years, was facing "Origins of Graupel Snow in Saline Particulates Found in Cirrus, Altostratus and Altocumulus Clouds in Cyclonic Vortexes in North Tharsis," a meteorological study of some importance.

And at this conference there had been no strong attempt to organize the posters into hallways by subject matter, so that “Distribution of Rhizocarpon geographicum in the East Charitum Montes,” detailing the high-altitude fortunes of a crustose lichen that could live up to four thousand years, was facing “Origins of Graupel Snow in Saline Particulates Found in Cirrus, Altostratus and Altocumulus Clouds in Cyclonic Vortexes in North Tharsis,” a meteorological study of some importance.

Looking at the endless fields of golden wheat, the clear blue skies, it was difficult to imagine what this land must once have been like, choking under a permanent pall of dioxides and particulates.