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/

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• Rhymes: -ɒmɪk

Adjective

atomic (not comparable)

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

   Antonym: molecular

   A stream of atomic hydrogen is emitted.

2. 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.

3. Infinitesimally small.

   The hairs on a bedbug are almost atomic.

4. Unable to be split or made any smaller.

   A bit is an atomic item of data.

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.

   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.

6. (programming, of a commit in a VCS) Containing a single change, as opposed to involving numerous unrelated changes.

Derived terms

Terms derived from atomic

• atomically
• atomic bomb
• atomic charge

• atomic cocktail
• atomicity
• atomic mass

• atomic power
• atomic wedgie
• atomic weight

Translations

of, or relating to atoms

• Asturian: atómicu
• Bulgarian: а́томен m (átomen)
• Catalan: atòmic
• Dutch: atomair (nl)
• Finnish: atomi- (fi), atomaarinen (fi), atominen (fi)
• French: atomique (fr)
• Galician: atómico
• Georgian: ატომური (aṭomuri)
• German: atomar (de), atomisch (rare)
• Greek: ατομικός (el) (atomikós)
• Haitian Creole: atomik
• Hebrew: אָטוֹמִי‎ (atómi)
• Hungarian: atomos (hu), atomi (hu)

• Interlingue: atomic
• Irish: adamhach
• Italian: atomico (it)
• Manx: breneenagh
• Norman: atonmique
• Occitan: atomic
• Portuguese: (Portugal) atómico (pt), (Brazil) atômico (pt)
• Romanian: atomic (ro)
• Russian: а́томный (ru) (átomnyj)
• Spanish: atómico (es)
• Swedish: atomär (sv)
• Yiddish: אַטאָמיש‎ (atomish)

of, or employing nuclear energy or processes

• Arabic: نَوَوِيّ‎ (nawawiyy), ذَرِّيّ‎ (ḏarriyy)
• Belarusian: а́тамны (átamny)
• Bulgarian: а́томен (átomen)
• Catalan: atòmic
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 原子 (zh) (yuánzǐ)

• Czech: atomový (cs) m
• Dutch: atomair (nl), atoom-, kern-
• Esperanto: atoma
• Finnish: ydin- (fi)
• French: atomique (fr), nucléaire (fr)
• Galician: atómico
• Georgian: ატომური (aṭomuri)
• German: Atom- (de), atomar (de)
• Greek: ατομικός (el) (atomikós)
• Hebrew: אָטוֹמִי‎ (atómi)
• Ido: atomala (io)

• Interlingue: atomic
• Italian: atomico (it)
• Japanese: 原子の (genshi no)
• Korean: 원자 (ko) (wonja)
• Norman: atonmique
• Persian: اتمی‎ (fa) (atomi)
• Polish: atomowy (pl)
• Portuguese: (Portugal) atómico (pt), (Brazil) atômico (pt)
• Russian: а́томный (ru) m (átomnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: атомски

  Roman: àtōmskī (sh)

• Slovene: atómski
• Spanish: atómico (es)
• Swedish: atom-
• Ukrainian: а́томний (uk) (átomnyj)
• Yiddish: אַטאָמיש‎ (atomish)

infinitesimally small

• Finnish: atomimittakaavainen
• French: microscopique (fr), infinitésimal (fr)
• Greek: ατομικός (el) (atomikós)

• Interlingue: atomic
• Swedish: atomisk (sv), atomär (sv)

unable to be split

• Finnish: perus- (fi), jakamaton (fi), atominen (fi)
• French: atomique (fr), indivisible (fr)
• Greek: ατομικός (el) (atomikós)

• Norman: atonmique
• Portuguese: atómico (pt)
• Swedish: atomisk (sv), atomär (sv)

computing: guaranteed to either complete fully, or not at all

• Finnish: atominen (fi), jakamaton (fi)
• French: atomique (fr), indivisible (fr)
• German: atomar (de)

• Greek: ατομικός (el) (atomikós)
• Norman: atonmique
• Russian: атомарный (ru) (atomarnyj)

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Translations to be checked

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} atomik (sq)

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} atomisch (nl)

Noun

atomic (plural atomics)

1. (computing) An atomic operation.

Anagrams

• -o-matic, matico

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Adjective

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

1. atomic

Related terms

• atòm, atòme