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Nevertheless, there is good reason that an elementary particle is often called a point particle.
Even if an elementary particle has a delocalized wavepacket, the wavepacket is in fact a quantum superposition of quantum states wherein the particle is exactly localized.
This is not true for a composite particle, which can never be represented as a superposition of exactly-localized quantum states.
It is in this sense that physicists can discuss the intrinsic " size " of a particle: The size of its internal structure, not the size of its wavepacket.
The " size " of an elementary particle, in this sense, is exactly zero.

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