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Atom Definition And Meaning |
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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. |
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