atomic
See also: atòmic
English
Etymology
atom + -ic
Pronunciation
- (General Australian) enPR: əˈtŏm.ĭk, IPA(key): /əˈtɔm.ɪk/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: əˈtŏm.ĭk, IPA(key): /əˈtɒm.ɪk/
- (General American) enPR: əˈtä.mĭk, IPA(key): /əˈtɑː.mɪk/
Audio (US) (file) - 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.
- We built a small atomic bomb in the garage.
- 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 bedbug are almost atomic.
- Unable to be split or made any smaller.
- 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, 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 unit
- atomic nucleus
- atomic number
- atomic orbital
- atomic physics
- atomic pile
- atomic power
- atomic tangerine
- atomic theory
- atomic time
- 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
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computing: guaranteed to either complete fully, or not at all
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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
From French atomique.
Adjective
atomic m or n (feminine singular atomică, masculine plural atomici, feminine and neuter plural atomice)
- atomic
Declension
Declension of atomic
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||