MOTE Synonyms: 98 Similar and Opposite Words

mote

noun

ˈmōt

Definition of mote

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 There’s always a new speck of dirt, mote of dust, or lock of hair to clean up. — Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 3 Oct. 2025 There’s a Gambit-adjacent one that has players depositing motes while killing other teams. — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 30 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 The researchers say their prototype mote used a commercially available circuit board. — Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Oct. 2016 See All Example Sentences for mote

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Noun

Chips could be destroyed by even a speck of dust, so factories became impregnable clean rooms, their workers clad in bunny suits.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
The source was generally in good condition, but mold spots and dense clusters of small white specks required careful treatment.

— Lin Ying-Hsuan, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of speck

Noun

In 2025 mCDR start-up Gigablue sold 200,000 future credits for a method intended to stimulate phytoplankton on mineral particles that later sink.

— Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
That approach allowed the researchers to cover a larger cosmic volume with more particles.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of particle

Noun

In addition, since all this debris is moving at orbital velocity, a fleck of paint traveling in the opposite direction to an operational satellite can hit it at a speed in excess of Mach 47.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 22 Oct. 2026
As few as 10 cells, hidden in an infinitesimal fleck of feces, can contaminate raw milk and trigger a fatal infection.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of fleck

Noun

Tomalak did a little bit of everything, fueling the offense as her team’s multidimensional quarterback and patrolling the secondary as a ball-hawking safety.

— Steve Reaven, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
Cutie from Saie is one of my favorites for a little bit of a deeper antiblush.

— Lindy Segal, Glamour, 18 Oct. 2026

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