atomic

noun

(computing) An atomic operation.

adjective

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

Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes.

(colloquial, by extension) Very strong and overpowering.

Unable to be split or made any smaller.

Infinitesimally small.

(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.

(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.

Roots

temno-tom · Greek · cut

Synonyms for atomic

tetratomicadj triatomicadj pentatomicadj subatomicadj monatomicadj diatomicadj isotopicadj

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