molecule
noun
1 molecule
physics and chemistry The simplest structural unit of an element or compound.
Dutch: molecuul, molecule
Polish: cząsteczka, molekuła, drobina
2 molecule
nontechnical usage A tiny piece of anything.
synonyms: atom, corpuscle, mote, particle, speck.
Roget 32:
smallness
etc.
adj.;
littleness
etc.
(small size)
193;
tenuity;
paucity;
fewness
etc.
(small number)
103;
meanness,
insignificance
(unimportance)
643;
mediocrity,
moderation.
small quantity,
modicum,
trace,
hint,
minimum;
vanishing point;
material point,
atom,
particle,
molecule,
corpuscle,
point,
speck,
dot,
mote,
jot,
iota,
ace;
minutiae,
details;
look,
thought,
idea,
soupcon,
dab,
dight†,
whit,
tittle,
shade,
shadow;
spark,
scintilla,
gleam;
touch,
cast;
grain,
scruple,
granule,
globule,
minim,
sup,
sip,
sop,
spice,
drop,
droplet,
sprinkling,
dash,
morceau†,
screed,
smack,
tinge,
tincture;
inch,
patch,
scantling,
tatter,
cantlet†,
flitter,
gobbet†,
mite,
bit,
morsel,
crumb,
seed,
fritter,
shive†;
snip,
snippet;
snick†,
snack,
snatch,
slip,
scrag†;
chip,
chipping;
shiver,
sliver,
driblet,
clipping,
paring,
shaving,
hair.
nutshell;
thimbleful,
spoonful,
handful,
capful,
mouthful;
fragment;
fraction
etc.
(part)
51;
drop in the ocean.
animalcule
etc.
193.
trifle
etc.
(unimportant thing)
643;
mere nothing,
next to nothing;
hardly anything;
just enough to swear by;
the shadow of a shade.
finiteness,
finite quantity.
... show more
Dutch: splinter, stofdeeltje, vuiltje, partikel, deeltje
Polish: atom
Moby thesaurus: Kekule formula, ace, acid, acidity, agent, air, alkali, alkalinity, alloisomer, anion, antacid, atom, atomic cluster, atomic particles, base, benzene ring, biochemical, bit, branched chain, brute matter, building block, cation, chain, chemical, chemical element, chromoisomer, closed chain, component, compound, compound radical, constituent, copolymer, cycle, dab, dimer, dole, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, dwarf, earth, electron, element, elementary particle, elementary unit, farthing, fire, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, fundamental particle, gobbet, grain, granule, groat, hair, handful, heavy chemicals, heterocycle, high polymer, homocycle, homopolymer, hydracid, hyle, hypostasis, inorganic chemical, ion, iota, isomer, jot, lattice, little, little bit, lota, macromolecule, material, material world, materiality, matter, meson, metamer, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, modicum, monad, monomer, mote, natural world, nature, neutralizer, nonacid, nuclear particle, nutshell, organic chemical, ounce, oxyacid, particle, pebble, physical world, pinch, pittance, plenum, point, polymer, proton, pseudoisomer, quark, radical, ray, reagent, ring, scruple, side chain, simple radical, smidgen, smitch, space-lattice, speck, spoonful, spot, straight chain, stuff, substance, substratum, sulfacid, the four elements, thimbleful, tiny bit, tittle, trifling amount, trimer, trivia, unit of being, water, whit ... show more.
debug info: 0.0338