atomic

Plural: atomics

Adjective

• of or relating to or comprising atoms
  • "atomic structure"
  • "atomic hydrogen"
• (weapons) deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy
  • "atomic bombs"

Adjective Satellite

• immeasurably small

Adj

• Of or relating to atoms; composed of atoms; monatomic.
• Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes.
• Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes.
• Very strong and overpowering.
• Infinitesimally small.
• Unable to be split or made any smaller.
• Containing a single change, as opposed to involving numerous unrelated changes.
• Unable to be split or made any smaller.
• Lacking logical operators; unable to be made simpler in logical form.
• Unable to be split or made any smaller.
• Such that for every element b>0 there exists an atom a such that b≥a>0.
• Unable to be split or made any smaller.
• Guaranteed to complete either fully or not at all while waiting in a pause, and running synchronously when called by multiple asynchronous threads.

Noun

• An atomic operation.

Examples

• "A bit is an atomic item of data."
• "A stream of atomic hydrogen is emitted."
• "atomic energy; atomic bombs"
• "In order to avoid race conditions, this operation has to be atomic."
• "Some nutjob once built a small atomic pile in his back yard."
• "The hairs on a dust mite are almost atomic."
• "Whenever possible, use atomic types instead of mutexes."

Synonyms

nuclear, indivisible, unatomizable

Antonyms

conventional, molecular

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