atomic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
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Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)
Proto-Indo-European *temh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-
Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō)
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Hellenic *-ós
▲
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ.
Ancient Greek -ός (-ós)
Ancient Greek *τομός (*tomós)
Ancient Greek ἄτομος (átomos)bor.
Latin atomusbor.
Middle French athomebor.
Middle English attome
English atom
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English atomic
From atom + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: atomics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to atoms; composed of atoms; monatomic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A stream of atomic hydrogen is emitted.
gloss: Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: atomic energy; atomic bombs
Some nutjob once built a small atomic pile in his back yard.
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.
gloss: Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
colloquial
not-comparable
gloss: Infinitesimally small.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The hairs on a dust mite are almost atomic.
gloss: Unable to be split or made any smaller.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A bit is an atomic item of data.
gloss: Unable to be split or made any smaller.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Unable to be split or made any smaller.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Unable to be split or made any smaller.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Guaranteed to complete either fully or not at all while waiting in a pause, and running synchronously when called by multiple asynchronous threads.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In order to avoid race conditions, this operation has to be atomic.
Whenever possible, use atomic types instead of mutexes.
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.
gloss: An atomic operation.
pos: noun
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
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:
lang: Arabic
word: نَوَوِيّ
roman: nawawiyy
lang: Arabic
word: ذَرِّيّ
roman: ḏarriyy
lang: Belarusian
word: а́тамны
roman: átamny
lang: Bulgarian
word: а́томен
roman: átomen
lang: Catalan
word: atòmic
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 原子
roman: yuánzǐ
lang: Czech
word: atomový
lang: Dutch
word: atomair
lang: Dutch
word: atoom-
lang: Dutch
word: kern-
lang: Esperanto
word: atoma
lang: Finnish
word: ydin-
lang: French
word: atomique
lang: French
word: nucléaire
lang: Galician
word: atómico
lang: Georgian
word: ატომური
roman: aṭomuri
lang: German
word: Atom-
lang: German
word: atomar
lang: Greek
word: ατομικός
roman: atomikós
lang: Hebrew
word: אָטוֹמִי
roman: atómi
lang: Hindi
word: नाभिकीय
roman: nābhikīya
lang: Ido
word: atomala
lang: Italian
word: atomico
lang: Japanese
word: 原子の
roman: genshi no
lang: Korean
word: 원자
roman: wonja
lang: Norman
word: atonmique
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: atom-
lang: Persian
word: اتمی
roman: atomi
lang: Polish
word: atomowy
lang: Portuguese
word: nuclear
lang: Brazilian Portuguese
word: atômico
lang: European Portuguese
word: atómico
lang: Russian
word: а́томный
roman: átomnyj
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: атомски
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: àtōmskī
lang: Slovene
word: atómski
lang: Spanish
word: atómico
lang: Swedish
word: atom-
lang: Swedish
word: kärn-
lang: Ukrainian
word: а́томний
roman: átomnyj
lang: Welsh
word: atomig
lang: Yiddish
word: אַטאָמיש
roman: atomish
lang: Finnish
word: perus-
lang: Finnish
word: jakamaton
lang: Finnish
word: atominen
lang: French
word: atomique
lang: French
word: indivisible
lang: Greek
word: ατομικός
roman: atomikós
lang: Norman
word: atonmique
lang: Swedish
word: atomisk
lang: Swedish
word: atomär
lang: Swedish
word: odelbar