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Atom Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Atom? [n] (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything [n] (physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element Synonyms \| Synonyms for Atom: molecule \| mote \| particle \| speck Related Terms \| Find terms related to Atom: ace \| acid \| acidity \| agent \| air \| alkali \| alkalinity \| alloisomer \| anion \| antacid \| atomic model \| atomic particles \| atoms \| base \| biochemical \| bit \| Bohr atom \| brute matter \| building block \| cation \| chemical \| chemical element \| chromoisomer \| component \| compound \| constituent \| copolymer \| cubical atom \| dab \| dash \| dimer \| Dirac atom \| dole \| dot \| dram \| dribble \| driblet \| dwarf \| dyad \| earth \| electron \| element \| elementary particle \| elementary unit \| fabric \| farthing \| fire \| fleck \| flyspeck \| fragment \| fundamental particle \| gobbet \| grain \| granule \| groat \| hair \| handful \| heavy chemicals \| heptad \| hexad \| high polymer \| homopolymer \| hydracid \| hyle \| hypostasis \| I \| inorganic chemical \| ion \| iota \| isobar \| isomer \| isotopic isobar \| jot \| labeled atom \| Lewis-Langmuir atom \| little \| little bit \| lota \| macromolecule \| material \| material world \| materiality \| matter \| medium \| meson \| metamer \| minim \| minimum \| minutiae \| mite \| modicum \| molecule \| monad \| monomer \| mote \| natural world \| nature \| neutral atom \| neutralizer \| no other \| nonacid \| none else \| normal atom \| nothing else \| nought beside \| nuclear atom \| nuclear isomer \| nuclear particle \| nuclide \| nutshell \| octad \| one \| one and only \| organic chemical \| ounce \| oxyacid \| particle \| pebble \| pentad \| physical world \| pinch \| pittance \| planetary shell \| plenum \| point \| polymer \| proton \| pseudoisomer \| quark \| radiation atom \| radical \| reagent \| recoil atom \| scruple \| shade \| shell \| smack \| smidgen \| smitch \| soupcon \| speck \| spice \| spoonful \| spot \| stripped atom \| stuff \| subshell \| substance \| substratum \| suggestion \| sulfacid \| suspicion \| tagged atom \| tangible \| tetrad \| the four elements \| thimbleful \| Thomson atom \| tincture \| tinge \| tiny bit \| tittle \| touch \| trace \| tracer \| tracer atom \| triad \| trifling amount \| trimer \| trivia \| unit \| unit of being \| valence shell \| water \| whit See Also \| carbon atom \| chemical element \| chylomicron \| element \| elementary particle \| free radical \| fundamental particle \| grain \| hydrogen atom \| isotope \| material \| matter \| monad \| nucleus \| radical \| stuff \| subatomic particle \| substance Atom In Webster's Dictionary \At"om\, n. [L. atomus, Gr. ?, uncut, indivisible; 'a priv. + ?, verbal adj. of ? to cut: cf. F. atome. See {Tome}.] 1. (Physics) (a) An ultimate indivisible particle of matter. (b) An ultimate particle of matter not necessarily indivisible; a molecule. (c) A constituent particle of matter, or a molecule supposed to be made up of subordinate particles. Note: These three definitions correspond to different views of the nature of the ultimate particles of matter. In the case of the last two, the particles are more correctly called molecules. --Dana. 2. (Chem.) The smallest particle of matter that can enter into combination; one of the elementary constituents of a molecule. 3. Anything extremely small; a particle; a whit. There was not an atom of water. --Sir J. Ross. \At"om\, v. t. To reduce to atoms. [Obs.] --Feltham.

Atom Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Atom?

[n] (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
[n] (physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element

Synonyms | Synonyms for Atom: molecule | mote | particle | speck

Atom In Webster's Dictionary

\At"om\, n. [L. atomus, Gr. ?, uncut, indivisible; 'a priv.
+ ?, verbal adj. of ? to cut: cf. F. atome. See {Tome}.]
1. (Physics)
   (a) An ultimate indivisible particle of matter.
   (b) An ultimate particle of matter not necessarily
       indivisible; a molecule.
   (c) A constituent particle of matter, or a molecule
       supposed to be made up of subordinate particles.

Note: These three definitions correspond to different views
      of the nature of the ultimate particles of matter. In
      the case of the last two, the particles are more
      correctly called molecules. --Dana.

2. (Chem.) The smallest particle of matter that can enter
   into combination; one of the elementary constituents of a
   molecule.

3. Anything extremely small; a particle; a whit.

         There was not an atom of water.       --Sir J. Ross.


\At"om\, v. t.
To reduce to atoms. [Obs.] --Feltham.

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