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Etymology

From atom + -ic.

derived from ἄτομος
derived from atomus
derived from athome
inherited from attome
suffixed as atomic — “atom + -ic”

Definitions

1
Of or relating to atoms
Of or relating to atoms; composed of atoms; monatomic.
- A stream of atomic hydrogen is emitted.
2
Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes.
- atomic energy; atomic bombs
- Some nutjob once built a small atomic pile in his back yard.
- 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.
3
Infinitesimally small.
- The hairs on a dust mite are almost atomic.
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1. 4
  Unable to be split or made any smaller.
  - A bit is an atomic item of data.
2. 5
  Guaranteed to complete either fully or not at all while waiting in a pause, and running…
  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.
  - 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.
3. An atomic operation.

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Derived

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A definitional loop anchored at atomic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at atomic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at atomic

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.