particulate

adj

1. Composed of separate particles.

   “particulate air pollution”

   “particulate matter”

2. 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.

   “The rudiments of particulate inheritance were dimly understood already by the breeders of cattle and apples, but nobody was being systematic.”

noun

1. (in-plural)Any solid or liquid in a subdivided state, especially one that exhibits special characteristics which are negligible in the bulk material.

   “Particulates in engine oil can abrade moving parts.”

verb

1. (transitive)To reduce to particles, make particulate.

   “Only after the explosion has particulated the poison and given it every opportunity to vaporize can any appreciable concentration of gas be present in the air.”

   “The study proved that Sialon particulated smaller than 0.5 micron could be sintered without using any auxiliary additives.”

   “The fascia is then particulated, rechecked for sterility, and loaded into syringes that are vacuum-packaged.”

2. (ambitransitive, obsolete)Synonym of particularize.

   “And I am bolde (contrary to the cuſtome of ſome vvriters) to leaue to particulate in my Epiſtle any part of the argument vvhich vvith ſo great grauitie he hath digeſted ar large in ſo great a volume: […]”

   “But what particulate we thus, that much in few would write?”

   “they at the loweſt ebbe of learning, amazed the world with their excellent knowledge in Philoſophie, and Divinitie: for that I may not particulate of Alexander of Hales, the Irrefragable Doctor, Schoolemaſter to the Angelique Doctor Thomas Aquinas, one Colledge in Oxford brought forth in one age thoſe foure lights of learning: […]”

   “If I ſhould particulate the ſcuffings and skirmiſhes hereabout betweene the Welſh and Engliſh in the beginning of the Normans time, their inrodes and outrodes, the often ſcarfyres of the Suburbs of Hanbrid beyond the bridge, whereupon he^([sic]) Welſhmen call it Treboeth, that is, The burnt towne, as alſo the wall made there of Welſh mens ſculls that went a great length, I ſhould ſeeme to forget my ſelfe and thruſt my ſicle into the Hiſtorians harveſt.”

   “Finally, after many acts performed above the nature of her [Joan of Arc’s] ſexe, which I will not ſtand here to particulate, ſhe was taken priſoner at the ſiege of Campeigne: […]”