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See also: atòmic
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: əˈtŏm.ĭk, IPA(key): /əˈtɒm.ɪk/
- (General American) enPR: əˈtä.mĭk, IPA(key): /əˈtɑː.mɪk/
Audio (US) (file) - (General Australian) enPR: əˈtŏm.ĭk, IPA(key): /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.
- (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
- 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
- atomicity
- atomic mass
- atomic mass number
- atomic mass unit
- atomic nucleus
- atomic number
- atomic orbital
- atomic physics
- atomic pile
- atomic power
- atomic tangerine
- atomic theory
- atomic time
- atomic typo
- atomic volume
- atomic weapon
- atomic wedgie
- atomic weight
- atomic winter
- average atomic mass
- hydrogen maser atomic clock
- like atomic clockwork
- relative atomic mass
- sub-atomic
- sub atomic
Translations
of, or relating to atoms
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of, or employing nuclear energy or processes
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infinitesimally small
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unable to be split
computing: guaranteed to either complete fully, or not at all
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Noun
atomic (plural atomics)
- (computing) An atomic operation.
Anagrams
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Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Adjective
atomic m (feminine singular atomica, masculine plural atomics, feminine plural atomicas)
Related terms
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)
Declension
Declension of atomic
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| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | atomic | atomică | atomici | atomice | ||
| definite | atomicul | atomica | atomicii | atomicele | |||
| genitive/ dative |
indefinite | atomic | atomice | atomici | atomice | ||
| definite | atomicului | atomicei | atomicilor | atomicelor | |||