particulate matter

1. 1.

   a small discrete mass of solid or liquid matter that remains individually dispersed in gas or liquid emissions (usually considered to be an atmospheric pollutant)

   Synonymsparticulate

   Broadermaterial

   Narrowerdust

Questions about particulate matter

What does particulate matter mean?

particulate matter means "a small discrete mass of solid or liquid matter that remains individually dispersed in gas or liquid emissions (usually considered to be an atmospheric pollutant)".

What is another word for particulate matter?

Close synonyms include particulate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is particulate matter a common word?

particulate matter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.