dust contamination | the act of contaminating with dust particles |
accelerator particle accelerator atom smasher | a scientific instrument that increases the kinetic energy of charged particles |
big H hell dust nose drops smack thunder skag scag | street names for heroin |
dust bag vacuum bag | a bag into which dirt is sucked by a vacuum cleaner |
dust cover | a removable plastic protective covering for a piece of equipment |
dust cover dust sheet | a large piece of cloth used to cover furniture that is not in use for a long period |
duster gaberdine gabardine smock dust coat | a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles |
dustmop dust mop dry mop | a dry swab for dusting floors |
fiberboard fibreboard particle board | wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets |
particle detector | a chamber in which particles can be made visible |
phencyclidine phencyclidine hydrochloride PCP angel dust | a drug used as an anesthetic by veterinarians, illicitly taken (originally in the form of powder or `dust') for its effects as a hallucinogen |
duality wave-particle duality | (physics) the property of matter and electromagnetic radiation that is characterized by the fact that some properties can be explained best by wave theory and others by particle theory |
particle physics high-energy physics high energy physics | the branch of physics that studies subatomic particles and their interactions |
particle | a function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbs |
book jacket dust cover dust jacket dust wrapper | a paper jacket for a book, a jacket on which promotional information is usually printed |
dust bowl | a region subject to dust storms, especially the central region of United States subject to dust storms in the s |
alpha particle | a positively charged particle that is the nucleus of the helium atom, emitted from natural or radioactive isotopes |
antitauon tau-plus particle | an antilepton of very great mass |
baryon heavy particle | any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions, a hadron with a baryon number of |
beta particle | a high-speed electron or positron emitted in the decay of a radioactive isotope |
elementary particle fundamental particle | (physics) a particle that is less complex than an atom, regarded as constituents of all matter |
interplanetary dust | microscopic particles in the interplanetary medium |
J particle psi particle | a neutral meson with a large mass |
kaon kappa-meson k-meson K particle | an unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision |
lambda particle lambda hyperon | an electrically neutral baryon with isotopic spin |
particle subatomic particle | a body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions |
strange particle | an elementary particle with non-zero strangeness |
tauon tau-minus particle | a lepton of very great mass |
weakly interacting massive particle WIMP | a hypothetical subatomic particle of large mass that interacts weakly with ordinary matter through gravitation, postulated as a constituent of the dark matter of the universe |
cosmic dust | clouds of particles or gases occurring throughout interstellar space |
dust cloud | a cloud of dust suspended in the air |
dust devil | a miniature whirlwind strong enough to whip dust and leaves and litter into the air |
dust storm duster sandstorm sirocco | a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand, it was the kind of duster not experienced in years |
particle beam | a collimated flow of particles (atoms or electrons or molecules) |
ice crystal snow mist diamond dust poudrin ice needle frost snow frost mist | small crystals of ice |
dust contamination | state of being contaminated with dust |
small-particle pollution | air pollution caused by fine particles of soot (as from power plants or diesel engines) |
atom molecule particle corpuscle mote speck | (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything |
dispersed phase dispersed particles | (of colloids) a substance in the colloidal state |
gold dust | the particles and flakes (and sometimes small nuggets) of gold obtained in placer mining |
chalk dust | dust resulting from writing with a piece of chalk, chalk dust covered the teacher's hands |
dust | fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air, the furniture was covered with dust |
dust | free microscopic particles of solid material, astronomers say that the empty space between planets actually contains measurable amounts of dust |
debris dust junk rubble detritus | the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up |
fallout radioactive dust | the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion |
identification particle | a tiny particle of material that can be added to a product to indicate the source of manufacture |
dust | remove the dust from, dust the cabinets |
dust | rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape, The artist dusted the charcoal drawing down to a faint image |
scatter sprinkle dot dust disperse | distribute loosely, He scattered gun powder under the wagon |
dust | cover with a light dusting of a substance, dust the bread with flour |