Meaning

9 senses
  1. (not comparable)Of or relating to atoms; composed of atoms; monatomic.

    A stream of atomic hydrogen is emitted.

    atomar, atomisch

    а́томныйátomnyj

    а́томнийátomnyj

    of or relating to or comprising atoms

  2. (not comparable)Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes.

    atomic energy; atomic bombs

    Some nutjob once built a small atomic pile in his back yard.

    Atom-, atomar

    а́томныйátomnyj

    а́томнийátomnyj

  3. Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes.

    (broadly, colloquial, not comparable)Very strong and overpowering.

  4. (not comparable)Infinitesimally small.

    The hairs on a dust mite are almost atomic.

    immeasurably small

  5. (not comparable)Unable to be split or made any smaller.

    A bit is an atomic item of data.

  6. Unable to be split or made any smaller.

    (not comparable)Containing a single change, as opposed to involving numerous unrelated changes.

  7. (not comparable)Lacking logical operators; unable to be made simpler in logical form.

  8. (not comparable)Such that for every element b>0 there exists an atom a such that b≥a>0.

  9. (not comparable)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.

    atomar

    атомарныйatomarnyj

Examples

97 sentences
  1. Here is an atomic power plant.

    Ось атомна електростанція.

    ruВот атомная электростанция.

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  2. The first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan.

    Перша атомна бомба була скинута на Японію.

    ruПервая атомная бомба была сброшена на Японию.

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  3. Science produced the atomic bomb.

    Наука створила атомну бомбу.

    ruНаука создала атомную бомбу.

    deDie Wissenschaft hat die Atombombe erfunden.

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  4. We live in the atomic age.

    ruМы живём в эру атома.

    deWir leben im Atomzeitalter.

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  5. We should make use of atomic energy.

    deWir sollten Atomkraft nutzen.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
of, or relating to atoms:
Русский
By meaning 2
of, or relating to atoms:
computing: guaranteed to either complete fully, or not at all:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
of, or relating to atoms:
of, or employing nuclear energy or processes:
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