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Synonyms for atom

Grammar : Noun
Spell : at-uhm
Phonetic Transcription : ˈæt əm

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Définition of atom

Origin :
  • late 15c., as a hypothetical indivisible body, the building block of the universe, from Latin atomus (especially in Lucretius) "indivisible particle," from Greek atomos "uncut, unhewn; indivisible," from a- "not" + tomos "a cutting," from temnein "to cut" (see tome). An ancient term of philosophical speculation (in Leucippus, Democritus), revived 1805 by British chemist John Dalton. In late classical and medieval use also a unit of time, 22,560 to the hour. Atom bomb is from 1945 as both a noun and a verb; cf. atomic.
  • noun smallest part of something
Example sentences :
  • The ion differs from the molecule, the corpuscle and the atom in that it is an ion.
  • Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
  • Fictions or realities, could they survive the touchstone of this atom of common sense?
  • Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
  • It wad but raise a strife atween the twa, ohn dune an atom o' guid.
  • Extract from : « Heather and Snow » by George MacDonald
  • Even the good things that the atom had brought were destroyed in the panic that ensued.
  • Extract from : « Now We Are Three » by Joe L. Hensley
  • An atom of any kind is not the inert thing it has been supposed to be, for it can do something.
  • Extract from : « The Machinery of the Universe » by Amos Emerson Dolbear
  • The atom retains its identity through all combinations and processes.
  • Extract from : « The Machinery of the Universe » by Amos Emerson Dolbear
  • Stop the rotation, and the atom would be annihilated for the same reason.
  • Extract from : « The Machinery of the Universe » by Amos Emerson Dolbear
  • And now—well, now he could not seem to arouse an atom of real enthusiasm.
  • Extract from : « Galusha the Magnificent » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • Yet all must come, as surely as the first atom has two sides.
  • Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • "He will give just enough of the atom pile for seventy million miles," he says.
  • Extract from : « Operation Earthworm » by Joe Archibald

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