molecule

noun

How many syllables in molecule?

There are 3 syllables in the word molecule.

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mol · e · cule

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Definition of molecule:

molecule (noun):: a very small particle; (physics and chemistry) the simplest structural unit of an element or compound.; the smallest particle of a substance that retains all the properties (see property sense 1a) of the substance and is composed of one or more atoms (see atom sense 1a)

Synonyms for molecule:

atom

bit

bite

building block

chain

chemical chain

chemical group

coenzyme

corpuscle

crumb

dipole molecule

dribble

drop

edta

ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid

fleck

flyspeck

fraction

fragment

grain

granule

iota

jot

lick

macromolecule

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Antonyms for molecule:

abundance

barrel

batch

beam

blob

block

bucketload

bulk

bunch

bundle

chunk

clod

clump

cluster

conglomerate

entirety

fair amount

fistful

glob

gob

gobbet

good deal

great deal

heap

hunk

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