atomic

See also: atòmic

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
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 *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Hellenic *-ós
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Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ.
Ancient Greek -ός (-ós)
Ancient Greek *τομός (*tomós)
Ancient Greek ἄτομος (átomos)bor.
Latin atomuslbor.
Middle French athomebor.
Middle English attome
English atom
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
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Latin -icusbor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English atomic

    From atom + -ic.

    Pronunciation

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

    Adjective

    atomic (not comparable)

    2. (physics, chemistry) Of or relating to atoms; composed of atoms; monatomic.
      Antonym: molecular
      A stream of atomic hydrogen is emitted.
    4. Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes.
      atomic energy; atomic bombs
      Some nutjob once built a small atomic pile in his back yard.
      1. (colloquial, by extension) Very strong and overpowering.
        Synonym: nuclear
      • 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.
    6. Infinitesimally small.
      The hairs on a dust mite are almost atomic.
    8. Unable to be split or made any smaller.
      Synonyms: discrete, indivisible, unatomizable
      A bit is an atomic item of data.
      2. (programming, of a commit in a VCS) Containing a single change, as opposed to involving numerous unrelated changes.
      4. (logic, of a proposition) Lacking logical operators; unable to be made simpler in logical form.
      5. (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≥a>0.
    10. (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.

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    Noun

    atomic (plural atomics)

    1. (computing) An atomic operation.

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    Pronunciation

    Adjective

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

    1. atomic

    Romanian

    Etymology

    Etymology tree
    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 *-os
    Proto-Indo-European *-ós
    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 atomuslbor.
    Middle French athome
    French atome
    Proto-Indo-European *-kos
    Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
    Proto-Italic *-ikos
    Latin -icuslbor.
    Old French -ique
    Middle French -ique
    French -ique
    French atomiquebor.
    Romanian atomic

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

      Adjective

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

      1. 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
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