as in speck
a very small piece
there's not a mote of dirt in that woman's house
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Recent Examples of mote
Weapon art: Gather motes of flame to swirl around in a ring.
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Oliver Brandt, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
The sensors’ small size allows seamless integration into almost any environment, while the wireless, modular design lets motes be added or removed as needed depending on the application.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2025
That’s a lot of hardware and software smarts packed into a tiny chip that might be just one of hundreds of motes affixed to pallets across an entire warehouse.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 July 2025
Reactivate to speed back to your beacon as a mote of pure light.
—Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
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Oliver Brandt, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
The sensors’ small size allows seamless integration into almost any environment, while the wireless, modular design lets motes be added or removed as needed depending on the application.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2025
That’s a lot of hardware and software smarts packed into a tiny chip that might be just one of hundreds of motes affixed to pallets across an entire warehouse.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 July 2025
Reactivate to speed back to your beacon as a mote of pure light.
—Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mote
Noun
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Their long, silvery-blue spiral arms are peppered with bright knots and specks, the telltale signposts of active, messy astrophysics in progress.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
8 Jan. 2026
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Pure black or white floors show every speck of dust.—
Marisa Suzanne Martin,
The Spruce,
6 Jan. 2026
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Yui's video kicked off with a dramatic display of zodiacal light, which formed as sunlight reflected off a cloud of interplanetary dust particles to form a column of light above the colorful arc of our Blue Marble.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
10 Jan. 2026
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The antenna that sends out the RF signal is made from zinc, and it is embedded into a cellulose particle, as per the release.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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López reportedly found flecks of gold while digging wild onions, sparking an early gold rush.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
26 Dec. 2025
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Shiny and dark evergreen foliage is held aloft on strong, arching stems mottled with purple flecks.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
21 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The sensor supports 13-bit output, allowing richer color representation and smoother tonal transitions.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Jan. 2026
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And probably died a little bit more when the Tyler Loop field goal that would have sent him home — maybe for good — was in the air before drifting wide right.—
Mike Lupica,
New York Daily News,
10 Jan. 2026
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Wipe the cleaner off in the direction of the grain.—
Hallie Milstein,
Southern Living,
9 Nov. 2025
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With its quiet streets, neat homes, and grain silos standing tall against big skies.—
Karthika Gupta,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Nov. 2025
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“Mote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mote. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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