atomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: əˈtŏm.ĭk
ipa: /əˈtɒm.ɪk/
enpr: əˈtä.mĭk
ipa: /əˈtɑː.mɪk/
enpr: əˈtŏm.ĭk
ipa: /əˈtɔm.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɒmɪk
Etymology: From atom + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: A stream of atomic hydrogen is emitted.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
antonyms: molecular
glosses: Of or relating to atoms; composed of atoms; monatomic.
examples: text: atomic energy; atomic bombs
text: Some nutjob once built a small atomic pile in his back yard.
text: 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.
ref: 1955, David J. Dallin, Soviet Espionage, page 495:
glosses: Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes.
glosses: Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes.
Very strong and overpowering.
synonyms: nuclear
examples: text: The hairs on a dust mite are almost atomic.
glosses: Infinitesimally small.
examples: text: A bit is an atomic item of data.
synonyms: indivisible
unatomizable
glosses: Unable to be split or made any smaller.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
synonyms: indivisible
unatomizable
glosses: Unable to be split or made any smaller.
Containing a single change, as opposed to involving numerous unrelated changes.
raw_tags: of a commit in a VCS
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: indivisible
unatomizable
glosses: Unable to be split or made any smaller.
Lacking logical operators; unable to be made simpler in logical form.
raw_tags: of a proposition
topics: mathematics
order-theory
sciences
synonyms: indivisible
unatomizable
glosses: Unable to be split or made any smaller.
Such that for every element b>0 there exists an atom a such that b≥a>0.
raw_tags: of a partially ordered set with a least element 0
examples: text: In order to avoid race conditions, this operation has to be atomic.
text: Whenever possible, use atomic types instead of mutexes.
text: 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.
ref: 2006, Tim Peierls, Brian Goetz, Joshua Bloch, Joseph Bowbeer, Doug Lea, David Holmes, Java Concurrency in Practice, Pearson Education, →ISBN, page 325:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Guaranteed to complete either fully or not at all while waiting in a pause, and running synchronously when called by multiple asynchronous threads.
raw_tags: of an operation
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 F-bomb
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 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
intratomic
like atomic clockwork
monoatomic
multiatomic
nonatomic
octaatomic
octatomic
pentatomic
polyatomic
postatomic
preatomic
pseudoatomic
quasiatomic
relative atomic mass
sub atomic
sub-atomic
subatomic
superatomic
tetratomic
triatomic