Atomic

/əˈtɒm.ɪk/ · adjective

Meaning

(physics, chemistry) Of or relating to atoms; composed of atoms; monatomic..

Definitions by Sense

1. (physics, chemistry) Of or relating to atoms; composed of atoms; monatomic.
2. Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes.
3. Infinitesimally small.
4. Unable to be split or made any smaller.
5. (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.
6. (computing) An atomic operation.

Example Sentences

A stream of atomic hydrogen is emitted.

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.

The hairs on a dust mite are almost atomic.

A bit is an atomic item of data.

In order to avoid race conditions, this operation has to be atomic.

Whenever possible, use atomic types instead of mutexes.

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• atomics

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