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| Domain | Definition |
Agriculture | The Environmental Protection Agency has set National Ambient Air Quality Standards for particulates. One, in effect since 1987, regulates particles smaller than 10 microns in diameter (PM10); the other, promulgated in 1997, would regulate particles smaller than 2.5 microns in diameter (PM2.5) - but court challenges are delaying its implementation. These are of interest to agriculture because dust from tillage and smoke from burning field residues may contribute to pollutant levels. Whether controls might be imposed on agricultural activities depends largely on how each state chooses to meet the standards, however. (references) |
Energy | The fine liquid or solid particles contained in combustion gases. The quantity and size of particulates emitted by cars, power and industrial plants, wood stoves, etc are regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (references) |
Environment | 1. Fine liquid or solid particles such as dust, smoke, mist, fumes, or smog, found in air or emissions. 2. Very small solids suspended in water; they can vary in size, shape, density and electrical charge and can be gathered together by coagulation and flocculation. (references) |
| Solid or liquid particulate matter from natural sources or man-made, forming atmospheric impurities. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Science | Very small pieces of solid or liquid matter such as particles of soot, dust, fumes, mists or aerosols. The physical characteristics of particles, and how they combine with other particles, are part of the feedback mechanisms of the atmosphere. (references) |
Weather | See particulate matter. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: PARTICULATES |
| Specialty definitions using "PARTICULATES": Acid Deposition, Adequately Wet, Air Cleaning, Airborne Particulates ♦ Best Available Control Measures ♦ Co-control benefit ♦ décantation ♦ Emission Factor ♦ Laser-Doppler Flowmetry ♦ Particulate Loading ♦ respirable-size particulate ♦ Trial Burn ♦ Wood-Burning-Stove Pollution. (references) |
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Business | Nitrogen oxide has fallen by 26 percent, carbon monoxide by 30 percent, lead by 50 percent and particulates have been reduced by 28 percent. (references) | |
Traditional sources of pollution, such as sulfur dioxide and particulates from the country's coal-based economy, are now compounded by an explosion of vehicles in China's cities. (references) | ||
Economic History | Hong Kong | The government is seeking options for alternative fuels and advanced technologies to control the growing problem of respirable suspended particulates. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "PARTICULATES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PARTICULATES" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 27 | 66,962 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
particulates | 16 |
particulates pm10 | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PARTICULATES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ved aerosoler forstaas vaeskeformige eller faste partikler, som er suspenderet i et gasformigt medium, som regel atmosfaerisk luft (aerosols are liquid or solid particulates in suspension in a gaseous medium, usually air), total partikelkoncentration i luft (total suspended particles, total suspended particulates in air), luftbårne partikler (air-borne dust, airborne particulates). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zwevend materiaal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kokonaishiukkasleijuma ilmassa (total suspended particles, total suspended particulates in air), ilmaperäiset hiukkaset (air-borne dust, airborne particulates). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | particule en suspension (airborne particles). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | luftgetragene Stäube (air-borne dust, airborne particulates), Gesamtheit der suspendierten Partikel in der Luft (total suspended particles, total suspended particulates in air), atmosphärische Partikel (air-borne dust, airborne particulates, atmospheric particulate, particulate matter in the atmosphere, s). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πολαρογραφικός προσδιορισμός (air-borne dust, airborne particulates), ολικά αιωρούμενα σωματίδια στον αέρα (total suspended particles, total suspended particulates in air). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | particelle sospese (air-borne dust, airborne particulates). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | articulatespay partículas veiculadas pelo ar (air-borne dust, airborne particulates), partículas transportadas pelo ar (air-borne dust, airborne particulates). (various references) partículas totales en suspensión en el aire (total suspended particles, total suspended particulates in air), partículas suspendidas en la atmósfera (air-borne dust, airborne particulates), partículas atmosféricas totales (total suspended particles, total suspended particulates in air). (various references) totalhalt suspenderade partiklar i luft (total suspended particles, total suspended particulates in air), luftburna partiklar (airborne agents, air-borne dust, airborne particulates). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PARTICULATES" (pronounced pÄ'rti"kyuluts) |
| 10 | -r t i" k y u l u t s | articulates. |
| 6 | -y u l u t s | amulets. |
| 5 | -u l u t s | consulates, correlates, violets. |
| 4 | -l u t s | anklets, ballots, billets, booklets, bracelets, branchlets, bullets, chocolates, droplets, eyelets, fillets, hamlets, helots, islets, leaflets, millets, nutlets, omelets, palates, pallets, pamphlets, pellets, piglets, pilots, platelets, prelates, quintuplets, sextuplets, starlets, tablets, toilets, triplets, wallets, zealots. |
| 3 | -u t s | advocates, affidavits, affiliates, affricates, agates, aggregates, animates, approximates, associates, audits, Babbitts, bandits, banquets, barbiturates, baronets, baskets, berets, bigots, biscuits, blankets, bluebonnets, brackets, buckets, budgets, buffets, cabinets, carats, carpets, carrots, caskets, certificates, chariots, chestnuts, cheviots, ciliates, circuits, climates, closets, comets, compatriots, composites, conduits, conglomerates, coordinates, covets, credits, crickets, culprits, deficits, degenerates, demerits, deposits, diets, digits, discredits, dockets, doctorates, edits, electorates, electromagnets, elicits, Emirates, ergots, estimates, exhibits, exits, facets, faucets, favorites, ferrets, frigates, gadgets, garrets, gaskets, graduates, guesstimates, habits, hatchets, helmets, hermits, hornets, hypermarkets, idiots, illiterates, inaugurates, ingots, inhabits, inherits, inhibits, initiates, intermediates, interprets, intimates, invertebrates, jackets, jesuits, junkets, laminates, lancets, laureates, legates, limits, limpets, maggots, magnets, markets, merits, microcircuits, microclimates, midgets, minutes, moderates, nonprofits, nuggets, opiates, opposites, orbits, packets, parrots, patriots, peanuts, perquisites, pickets, pickpockets, pirates, planets, plaudits, plummets, pockets, poets, portraits, posits, prerequisites, privates, profits, prohibits, prophets, puppets, quiets, rackets, racquets, requisites, revisits, rickets, riots, rivets, rockets, russets, secrets, silicates, snippets, sockets, solicits, spigots, spirits, summits, supermarkets, surrogates, targets, tenets, thickets, tickets, trinkets, trumpets, turrets, underestimates, undergraduates, unfortunates, units, visits, wastebaskets, whats, wickets, widgets. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-l-p-r-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: articulates, capitulates, particulate. | |
-2 letters: articulate, capitulate, testicular. | |
-3 letters: actuaries, apiculate, aspectual, capitular, catapults, estuarial, literatus, paltriest, parietals, particles, peculiars, placaters, psalteria, rusticate, spatulate, stipulate, tailraces, urticates. | |
-4 letters: actuates, airscape, airspace, altruist, apatetic, apatites, aplastic, ariettas, aristate, articles, aspirate, auricles, caesural, calipers, caltraps, capitals, capitate, capitula, capsular, captures, castrate, castrati, catapult, cattails, citrates, clatters, claustra. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-l-p-r-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: recapitulates. | |
+3 letters: particularities, recapitulations. | |
+5 letters: australopithecine, supernaturalistic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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