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Image:Stylised Lithium Atom.svg|thumb|right|A stylized representation of a [[Lithium atom using a Rutherford model.]]

English

Etymology

From atome, from atomus ‘smallest particle’, from , noun use of an adjective ‘indivisible’, from ‘without’ + ‘to cut’.

Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈætəm/

Noun

  1. The smallest mediaeval unit of time, equal to fifteen ninety-fourths of a second.
  2. A theoretical particle of matter, imagined to be incapable of further division; the smallest possible unit of substance.
  3. The smallest possible amount of matter which still retains its identity as a chemical element, now known to consist of a nucleus surrounded by electrons.
  4. A non-zero member of a wikipedia:Boolean algebra|Boolean algebra that is not a union of any other elements.
  5. The smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit of something.


Translations

  • Afrikaans: atoom
  • Arabic: (ðarra)
  • Catalan: àtom
  • Chinese: 原子 (yuán zǐ)
  • Danish: {{t-|da|atom|n}}
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|atoom|n}}
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|atome|m}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Atom|n}}
  • Greek: {{t+|el|άτομο|n|tr=átomo|sc=Grek}}
  • Hebrew: אטום (ʾāt'om)
  • Hindi: परमाणु (paramāṇu)
  • Italian: {{t+|it|atomo|m}}
  • Japanese: {{t+|ja|元素|tr=genso|sc=Jpan}}
  • Korean: 원자 (weonja)
  • Kurdish: {{t+|ku|ئه‌تۆم|sc=KUchar}}
  • Latvian: {{t-|lv|atoms|m|xs=Latvian}}
  • Marathi: अणू (aṇū)
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|átomo|m}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|атом|m|tr=átom|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Spanish: {{t+|es|átomo|m}}
  • Swedish: {{t+|sv|atom|c}}
  • Thai: (bpràmānū), (àdtom)
  • Urdu:
  • Afrikaans: atoom
  • Arabic: (ðarra)
  • Catalan: àtom
  • Chinese: 原子 (yuán zǐ)
  • Czech: {{t+|cs|atom|m}}
  • Danish: {{t-|da|atom|n}}
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|atoom|n}}
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|atome|m}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Atom|n}}
  • Greek: {{t+|el|άτομο|n|sc=Grek}}
  • Hebrew: אטום (ʾāt'om)
  • Hindi: परमाणु (paramāṇu)
  • Italian: {{t+|it|atomo|m}}
  • Japanese: (, genshi)
  • Korean: 원자 (weonja)
  • Kurdish:
  • Latvian: {{t-|lv|atoms|xs=Latvian}}
  • Marathi: अणू (aṇū)
  • Polish: {{t+|pl|atom|m}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|átomo|m}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|атом|m|tr=átom|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Spanish: {{t+|es|átomo|m}}
  • Swedish: {{t+|sv|atom|c}}
  • Thai: (bpràmānū), (àdtom)
  • Urdu:
  • Volapük: {{t-|vo|taum|xs=Volapük}}
  • Danish: {{t-|da|atom|n}}
  • Japanese: {{t+|ja|原子|tr=genshi|sc=Jpan}}
  • Marathi: बूलियन बिजगणितीय प्रणालीतील एक घटक
  • Danish: {{t-|da|atom|n}}
  • Finnish: perusosanen
  • Hindi: लघुत्तम अविभाज्य घटक
  • Marathi: लघुत्तम अविभाज्य घटक
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|átomo|m}}

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Category:Greek derivations

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Croatian

Noun

  1. #English|atom


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Czech

Noun

atom

  1. #English|atom


Category:Czech nouns

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Danish

Noun

{{da-noun|et|atom|atomet|atomer|atomerne}}

  1. #English|atom


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Swedish

Noun

  1. #English|atom; the smallest particle to retain the properties of the element
  2. atom; the theoretically smallest possible particle


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Atom \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.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

2. (Chem.) The smallest particle of matter that can enter
into combination; one of the elementary constituents of a
molecule.
[1913 Webster]

3. Anything extremely small; a particle; a whit.
[1913 Webster]

There was not an atom of water. --Sir J. Ross.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Atom \At"om\, v. t.
To reduce to atoms. [Obs.] --Feltham.
[1913 Webster] Atom bomb
WordNet atom
n 1: (physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element
having the chemical properties of the element
2: (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything [syn: molecule,
particle, corpuscle, mote, speck]
Moby Dictionary
Bohr atom , Dirac atom , I , Lewis-Langmuir atom , Thomson atom , ace ,
acid , acidity , agent , air , alkali , alkalinity , alloisomer , anion ,
antacid , atomic model , atomic particles , atoms , base , biochemical ,
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chemical element , chromoisomer , component , compound , constituent ,
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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 ,
inorganic chemical , ion , iota , isobar , isomer , isotopic isobar ,
jot , labeled 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 , tincture , tinge , tiny bit ,
tittle , touch , trace , tracer , tracer atom , triad , trifling amount ,
trimer , trivia , unit , unit of being , valence shell , water , whit


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