atomize
Verb
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Verb
atomize (atomizes, present participle atomizing; past and past participle atomized)
- (transitive) to separate or reduce into atoms
- (transitive) to make into a fine spray
- (transitive) to fragment, break into small pieces or concepts
- 1979, Gould, Stephen J., and Richard C. Lewontin. "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 205: p. 585:
- An organism is then atomized into 'traits' and these traits are explained as structures optimally designed by natural selection for their functions.
- 1979, Gould, Stephen J., and Richard C. Lewontin. "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 205: p. 585:
- (transitive) to bomb with nuclear weapons
- German: atomisieren
- Portuguese: atomizar
- Spanish: atomizar
- German: atomisieren
- Portuguese: atomizar
- Spanish: atomizar
- German: atomisieren
- Portuguese: atomizar
- Spanish: atomizar
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