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atomic

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atomic (not comparable)

(physics, chemistry) Of or relating to atoms; composed of atoms; monatomic.
Antonyms: molecular
A stream of atomic hydrogen is emitted.
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.
Infinitesimally small.
The hairs on a bedbug are almost atomic.
Unable to be split or made any smaller.
A bit is an atomic item of data.
(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 9780132702256), 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.

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atomic (plural atomics)

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