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molecule

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molecule in WordNet English dictionary

noun
  1. (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
    atom  molecule  particle  corpuscle  mote  speck 
  2. (physics and chemistry) the simplest structural unit of an element or compound
    molecule 
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