# atomic
## English
### Etymology

From atom +‎ -ic.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: əˈtŏm.ĭk, IPA: /əˈtɒm.ɪk/
* (General American) enPR: əˈtä.mĭk, IPA: /əˈtɑː.mɪk/
* Audio (US):(file)
* (General Australian) enPR: əˈtŏm.ĭk, IPA: /əˈtɔm.ɪk/
* Rhymes: -ɒmɪk

### Adjective

atomic (not comparable)
* (physics, chemistry) Of or relating to atoms; composed of atoms; monatomic.
    Antonym: molecular
    A stream of atomic hydrogen is emitted.
* Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes.
    atomic energy; atomic bombs
    Some nutjob once built a small atomic pile in his back yard.
** 1955, David J. Dallin, Soviet Espionage, page 495:Before the atomic spy Allan Nunn May left Canada to go to London, a treff in London had to be arranged for him and another agent.
* Infinitesimally small.
    The hairs on a dust mite are almost atomic.
* Unable to be split or made any smaller.
    Synonyms: indivisible, unatomizable
    A bit is an atomic item of data.
** (programming, of a commit in a VCS) Containing a single change, as opposed to involving numerous unrelated changes.
** (logic, of a proposition) Lacking logical operators; unable to be made simpler in logical form.
** (order theory, of a partially ordered set with a least element 0) Such that for every element $b>0$ there exists an atom $a$ such that $b\geq a>0$.
* (computing, of an operation) Guaranteed to complete either fully or not at all while waiting in a pause, and running synchronously when called by multiple asynchronous threads.
    In order to avoid race conditions, this operation has to be atomic.
    Whenever possible, use atomic types instead of mutexes.
** 2006, Tim Peierls, Brian Goetz, Joshua Bloch, Joseph Bowbeer, Doug Lea, David Holmes, Java Concurrency in Practice, Pearson Education, →ISBN, page 325:It also provides an atomic compareAndSet method (which if successful has the memory effects of both reading and writing a volatile variable) and, for convenience, atomic add, increment, and decrement methods.

#### Derived terms

* 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 fission
* atomic force microscope
* atomic force microscopy
* atomic forensics
* atomic formula
* atomic fusion
* atomic gardening
* atomician
* atomicism
* atomicity
* atomic mass
* atomic mass number
* atomic mass unit
* atomic nucleus
* atomic number
* atomic orbital
* atomic physics
* atomic pile
* atomic power
* 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
* intratomic
* like atomic clockwork
* monoatomic
* multiatomic
* nonatomic
* octaatomic
* octatomic
* pentatomic
* polyatomic
* postatomic
* preatomic
* pseudoatomic
* quasiatomic
* relative atomic mass
* subatomic
* sub-atomic
* sub atomic
* superatomic
* tetratomic
* triatomic

#### Translations

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### Noun

atomic (plural atomics)
* (computing) An atomic operation.

### Anagrams

* -o-matic, matico

## Occitan
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

atomic m (feminine singular atomica, masculine plural atomics, feminine plural atomicas)
* atomic

#### Related terms

* atòm, atòme

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French atomique. By surface analysis, atom +‎ -ic.

### Adjective

atomic m or n (feminine singular atomică, masculine plural atomici, feminine and neuter plural atomice)
* atomic