Pellet are small particles typically created by compressing an original material. Specific items often termed 'pellet' include:
- Pelletizing is the industrial process used to create pellets, using a pellet mill or equipment for extrusion and spheronization (also called marumerization)
- Spheroids is the process for the manufacture of round and regularly sized pellets by the process of spheronization (a trade mark of Caleva Process Solutions)
- Plastic resin pellet, a raw material used in plastics manufacturing
- Animal feed pellet, a foodstuff produced from various raw materials and additives
- Bird pellet, a round ball of undigested matter that some bird species regurgitate
- Pellet stove fuel:
- wood pellets,
- corn pellets,
- grass pellets
- Precipitation (chemistry), as formed during centrifugation
- Pellet (software), an open-source Java OWL DL reasoner.
- Carbonate pellet, a natural sedimentary structure found in limestones.
- Bullets
- Air gun pellets, non-spherical projectiles fired from air guns
- Airsoft pellets, spherical plastic projectiles used in Airsoft guns
- Lead shot, metal balls that are fired from a shotgun