dust particle
Tiny floating debris
A dust particle is a tiny fragment of solid matter suspended in air or settled on surfaces.
Dust particles consist of varied materials—skin cells, fabric fibers, pollen, dirt, soot—and are typically invisible individually but visible in aggregate or when caught in light: Dust particles floated in the sunbeam.
The term appears in discussions of air quality, allergies, and cleaning.
- speckMinute visible particle
- moteTiny airborne particle
- fleckMinute spot or particle
- grainCereal plant's harvest unit
- debrisScattered broken fragments
airborne · floating · drifting · microscopic · pollen · allergen · sneeze · sunbeam · lint · soot · ash · settled · wisp · haze · filament · cosmic · sandy · gritty
- foreign bodiessplinter, glass shard, fish bone, bullet, shrapnel
- microscopic thingspollen, bacteria, red blood cell, mold spore, protozoa
- space rocksasteroid, asteroids, meteorites, meteorite, meteors
- meteoroidsLeonid, Geminid
- nucleationseed crystal
- meteorsmeteor, fireball, fireballs, shooting star, shooting stars