Noun
A minute part or portion of matter; a morsel; a little bit; an atom; a jot; as, a particle of sand, of wood, of dust.
Any very small portion or part; the smallest portion; as, he has not a particle of patriotism or virtue.
A crumb or little piece of concecrated host.
The smaller hosts distributed in the communion of the laity.
A subordinate word that is never inflected (a preposition, conjunction, interjection); or a word that can not be used except in compositions; as, ward in backward, ly in lovely.
Source: Webster's dictionaryLove hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. Leo Tolstoy
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. Henry James
A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental evidence. Steven Weinberg
We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards. A. E. Waite
For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away. William Blake
A particle of goat dung cannot be eaten by a large gourd. Maasai Proverb