English Explanatory Dictionary

atomic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or relating to atoms; composed of atoms; monatomic.
  2. Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes.
  3. Very strong and overpowering.
  4. Infinitesimally small.
  5. Unable to be split or made any smaller.
  6. Containing a single change, as opposed to involving numerous unrelated changes.
  7. Lacking logical operators; unable to be made simpler in logical form.
  8. Such that for every element b>0 there exists an atom a such that b≥a>0.
  9. Guaranteed to complete either fully or not at all while waiting in a pause, and running synchronously when called by multiple asynchronous threads.
noun
  1. An atomic operation.

Pronunciation

əˈtŏm.ĭk /əˈtɒm.ɪk/ əˈtä.mĭk /əˈtɑː.mɪk/ en-us-atomic.ogg /əˈtɔm.ɪk/

Word forms

atomic atomics

Etymology

From atom + -ic.

Synonyms

nuclear discrete indivisible unatomizable

Antonyms

molecular

Derived words

antiatomic atomic absorption spectroscopy atomic age atomically atomic authorization atomic battery atomic bomb atomic buffalo turd atomic charge atomic clock atomic cocktail atomic emission spectroscopy atomic energy atomic F-bomb atomic fission atomic football atomic force microscope atomic force microscopy atomic forensics atomic formula atomic fusion atomic garden atomic gardening atomician atomicism atomicity atomic mass atomic mass number atomic mass unit atomic note atomic nucleus atomic number atomic operating system atomic orbital atomic physics atomic pile atomic power atomic radius atomic reactor atomic tangerine atomic theory atomic time atomic typo atomic volume atomic weapon atomic wedgie atomic weight atomic winter average atomic mass biatomic coatomic diatomic equiatomic heptatomic heteroatomic hexatomic homoatomic hydrogen maser atomic clock interatomic intraatomic

Translations

Arabic: نَوَوِيّ Arabic: ذَرِّيّ Belarusian: а́тамны Bulgarian: а́томен Catalan: atòmic Chinese Mandarin: 原子 Czech: atomový Dutch: atomair Dutch: atoom- Dutch: kern- Esperanto: atoma Finnish: ydin- Finnish: perus- Finnish: jakamaton Finnish: atominen French: atomique French: nucléaire French: indivisible Galician: atómico Georgian: ატომური German: Atom- German: atomar Greek: ατομικός Hebrew: אָטוֹמִי Hindi: नाभिकीय Ido: atomala Italian: atomico Japanese: 原子の Korean: 원자 Norman: atonmique Norwegian Bokmål: atom- Persian: اتمی Polish: atomowy Portuguese: nuclear Brazilian Portuguese: atômico European Portuguese: atómico Russian: а́томный Serbo-Croatian: атомски Serbo-Croatian: àtōmskī Slovene: atómski Spanish: atómico Swedish: atom- Swedish: kärn- Swedish: atomisk Swedish: atomär Swedish: odelbar Ukrainian: а́томний Welsh: atomig Yiddish: אַטאָמיש
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