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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
atomic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a nuclear/atomic explosion
▪ This is the site of the first ever nuclear explosion.
an atom/atomic bomb
▪ Oppenheimer was the father of the atomic bomb.
atomic bomb
atomic energy
atomic number
nuclear/atomic energy
▪ a report on the cost of nuclear energy
nuclear/atomic weapons
▪ The country is thought to be developing nuclear weapons.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
absorption
▪ Analytical techniques such as atomic absorption spectrophotometry and neutron activation analysis may be required for quantitative determination at such low levels.
▪ Calcium is determined using a variety of other reagents and most reliably by using atomic absorption spectrophotometry.
▪ Analysis was by atomic absorption spectrophotometry.
▪ There is no mention of environmentally important techniques as gas chromatography, mass spectrometry, atomic absorption spectrometry, etc.
▪ The Z-8200 series of atomic absorption spectrophotometers has been launched by Hitachi Scientific Instruments.
▪ To determine these it is necessary to use a slower method such as atomic absorption spectroscopy or neutron activation.
bomb
▪ He had led the team that developed the Soviet Union's atomic bomb and had begun seeking peaceful applications of nuclear power.
▪ On September 23, 1949, Truman declared that the Soviets had detonated an atomic bomb.
▪ This was a crude nuclear reactor whose job was simply to produce plutonium for the manufacture of atomic bombs.
▪ The Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima at 8: 15 in the morning of August 6, 1945.
▪ Eventually, he demanded a couple of dozen atomic bombs to do the job.
▪ These were the days of ducking and cowering under our desks to survive a direct hit from an atomic bomb.
▪ It soon developed the atomic bomb.
clock
▪ Other more recent tests involve direct comparison of the time-keeping of atomic clocks or of masers.
▪ Similarly, events can be timed to the precision of atomic clock broadcasts.
▪ These transmit coded signals containing information from highly accurate atomic clocks on board.
▪ It also has the advantage of reducing many systematic effects present in atomic clocks.
energy
▪ Substantial amounts have been earmarked for energy - mainly to a new agency for energy management and the atomic energy agency.
▪ Still, I catch glimpses of the same atomic energy she has always had, the same joie de vivre.
▪ We had great difficulty getting information on the atomic energy privatisation measure.
▪ These two effects split the atomic energy levels into several components, producing the so-called hyperfine structure.
▪ Singh proposed that industrial licences be abolished except in certain strategic sectors such as the arms industry, atomic energy and strategic minerals.
nucleus
▪ At this point it must seem paradoxical that atomic nuclei containing several closely packed protons exist at all.
▪ Within the nucleus An atomic nucleus is very small; less than 10 -15 metres in diameter.
▪ Quarks bind together to make up larger particles such as the protons and neutrons found in the atomic nucleus.
▪ Understanding of the atomic nucleus was progressing rapidly and awareness was dawning of the awesome energies latent within.
▪ In this context, a neutron star is effectively a single atomic nucleus.
number
▪ This selection of elements also reveals the increase in atomic weight over atomic number.
▪ All atoms of the same element have the same atomic number; for exam-ple, the atomic number of carbon is 6.
▪ Carbon has three naturally occurring isotopes, that is, atoms of the same atomic number but different atomic weights.
▪ The presence of neutrons explains why the atomic weights of elements do not correspond with their atomic numbers.
▪ The ionic radius varies among the elements depending on atomic number and ionic charge of the ion.
particle
▪ Like atomic particles, emotions have half-lives.
▪ We are continuously bombarded by cosmic rays, atomic particles ejected by distant stellar catastrophes.
physics
▪ There is a complementarity between life and atomic physics.
▪ Scientists were deeply split on the uses to which the discoveries of atomic physics were being put.
▪ In atomic physics they are represented as Proton, Neutron, Electron, the three elements of all structure throughout nature.
power
▪ She's demanding from me a commitment to something more personal than atomic Power.
▪ The outer provinces still possessed immense stretches where atomic power had not yet been re-introduced.
▪ But atomic power to my generation always means that mushroom cloud.
▪ You have given them atomic power.
▪ I imagine atomic power is fifty thousand years old now.
▪ And therefore it follows that the rest of the Periphery no longer has atomic power either.
structure
▪ They expected diamonds to have a single atomic structure.
▪ The discovery of atomic structure and the uncertainty principle put an emphatic end to that.
▪ The reasons lie in its complex physical chemistry, and central to this is its atomic structure.
▪ The atomic structures which characterize each family are built up in different ways with the basic SiO4 building-block.
▪ The text assumes a basic knowledge of symmetry, atomic structure, thermodynamics and electrode potentials.
▪ This hope was shattered by the discovery of atomic structure and quantum mechanics.
▪ So volcanic rocks are composed of only a few mineral groups, each group having its own characteristic atomic structure.
theory
▪ Genetics is to biology what atomic theory is to physics.
▪ He claimed the atomic theory of crystal shape was unproven.
▪ The book is indispensable to anyone working in atomic theory and should be of interest also to those working in applied spectroscopy.
▪ The evidence for the so-called atomic theory has been very much circumstantial.
▪ It is hardly suited as a textbook for a graduate course in atomic theory.
▪ There were all sorts of other problems with Dalton's atomic theory.
▪ There is an uncanny resemblance between this reasoning and that which had earlier led John Dalton to an atomic theory of chemistry.
weapon
▪ When Clement Attlee became Prime Minister in 1945, he was no enthusiast of atomic weapons, but that programme proceeded.
▪ B-29s were known around the world as the bombers that carried atomic weapons.
▪ There is some residual radiation, indicating that atomic weapons were in use approximately five thousand years ago.
▪ In 1974 congressional committees began raising questions in public about the security and usefulness of the atomic weapons.
▪ They argued that the use of atomic weapons violated both conventional and customary international law.
▪ Under Eisenhower, the United States developed smaller atomic weapons that could be used tactically on the battlefield.
▪ Furthermore, he saw incompatibility in Britain spending large sums on atomic weapons whilst accepting Marshall Aid.
▪ His family believe it was because his father, Phillip worked at the atomic weapons plant at Aldermaston.
weight
▪ Coronium, for example, received an atomic weight of 0.4.
▪ The sum of the masses of protons and neutrons is the atomic weight of the atom.
▪ This selection of elements also reveals the increase in atomic weight over atomic number.
▪ The iron minerals hematite and magnetite have high densities be-cause of the high atomic weight of iron.
▪ The atomic weight is a ratio quite distinct from the weight in grams.
▪ Carbon has three naturally occurring isotopes, that is, atoms of the same atomic number but different atomic weights.
▪ The presence of neutrons explains why the atomic weights of elements do not correspond with their atomic numbers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A star marks the epicentre of the atomic bomb dropped in 1945.
▪ All this occurred after the two atomic bombs had been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
▪ Energy is released when the nuclei of the light atomic elements join, so bringing them together is the primary goal.
▪ The United States might have created the atomic bomb in hundreds of different ways.
▪ These were the days of ducking and cowering under our desks to survive a direct hit from an atomic bomb.
▪ This hope was shattered by the discovery of atomic structure and quantum mechanics.
▪ When Clement Attlee became Prime Minister in 1945, he was no enthusiast of atomic weapons, but that programme proceeded.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Atomic

Atomic \A*tom"ic\, Atomical \A*tom"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. atomique.]

  1. Of or pertaining to atoms.

  2. Extremely minute; tiny.

    Atomic bomb, see atom bomb in the vocabulary.

    Atomic philosophy, or Doctrine of atoms, a system which, assuming that atoms are endued with gravity and motion, accounted thus for the origin and formation of all things. This philosophy was first broached by Leucippus, was developed by Democritus, and afterward improved by Epicurus, and hence is sometimes denominated the Epicurean philosophy.

    Atomic theory, or the Doctrine of definite proportions (Chem.), teaches that chemical combinations take place between the supposed ultimate particles or atoms of bodies, in some simple ratio, as of one to one, two to three, or some other, always expressible in whole numbers.

    Atomic weight (Chem.), the weight of the atom of an element as compared with the weight of the atom of hydrogen, taken as a standard.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
atomic

1670s as a philosophical term (see atomistic); scientific sense dates from 1811, from atom + -ic. Atomic number is from 1821; atomic mass is from 1848. Atomic energy first recorded 1906 in modern sense (as intra-atomic energy from 1903).\n\nMarch, 1903, was an historic date for chemistry. It is, also, as we shall show, a date to which, in all probability, the men of the future will often refer as the veritable beginning of the larger powers and energies that they will control. It was in March, 1903, that Curie and Laborde announced the heat-emitting power of radium. [Robert Kennedy Duncan, "The New Knowledge," 1906] \n\nAtomic bomb first recorded 1914 in writings of H.G. Wells, who thought of it as a bomb "that would continue to explode indefinitely."\nWhen you can drop just one atomic bomb and wipe out Paris or Berlin, war will have become monstrous and impossible. [S. Strunsky, "Yale Review," January 1917]\nAtomic Age is from 1945. Atomical is from 1640s.

Wiktionary
atomic

a. 1 (context physics chemistry English) Of or relating to atoms 2 Of or employing nuclear energy or processes 3 infinitesimally small 4 Unable to be split or made any smaller 5 (context computing English) Said of an operation that is guaranteed to either complete fully, or not at all.

WordNet
atomic
  1. adj. of or relating to or comprising atoms; "atomic structure"; "atomic hydrogen"

  2. (weapons) deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy; "nuclear war"; "nuclear weapons"; "atomic bombs" [syn: nuclear] [ant: conventional]

  3. immeasurably small [syn: atomlike, minute]

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Wikipedia
Atomic

Atomic may refer to:

  • Of or relating to the atom, the smallest particle of a chemical element that retains its chemical properties
  • Atomic Age, also known as the "Atomic Era"
  • Atomic Brain Records, Australia's most successful record label
  • Atomic (magazine), an Australian computing and technology magazine
  • Atomic Skis, an Austrian ski producer
  • Atomic (band), a Norwegian jazz quintet
  • Atomic (EP), an extended play by
  • Atomic (album), an album by Lit
  • "Atomic" (song), a song by Blondie
  • "Atomic", a song by Tiger Army from Tiger Army III: Ghost Tigers Rise
  • Atom (order theory) in mathematics
  • Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise, a documentary by Mark Cousins
    • Atomic, a soundtrack by Mogwai to the above documentary
Atomic (album)

Atomic is the third studio album by the American rock band Lit, released on October 16, 2001 by RCA Records. It peaked at #36 on the US Billboard 200.

"Happy in the Meantime" is featured on the soundtrack for Mr. Deeds and is played as the credits roll.

"Over My Head" was originally featured on the soundtrack for the 2000 animated science fiction film Titan A.E..

" Lipstick and Bruises" was featured in the soundtrack for the 2001 cult comedy film Out Cold.

"The Last Time Again" was featured in the final credits of the 2001 film American Pie 2, but is mistakenly listed as "Last Time Again."

Atomic (song)

"Atomic" is a hit song by the American new wave band Blondie, written by Debbie Harry and Jimmy Destri and produced by Mike Chapman. It was released as the third single from the band's Platinum-selling 1979 album Eat to the Beat.

Atomic (band)

Atomic is a Norwegian/Swedish jazz band formed in 1999, composed of musicians from the top stratum of the European jazz circuit. Atomic has established itself as one of the most respected "new" constellations in jazz. In 2014, original drummer Paal Nilssen-Love was replaced by Hans Hulbækmo.

Atomic (EP)

Atomic (stylised ATOMIC!) is an extended play (EP) by English electronic musician and producer Labrinth. Written and recorded throughout 2012, it was self-released on Labrinth's own label Odd Child Recordings on 1 February 2013 as a free digital download.

Atomic (magazine)

Atomic (or Atomic MPC) was a monthly Australian magazine and online community focusing on computing and technology, with an emphasis on gaming, modding and computer hardware. Atomic was marketed at technology enthusiasts and covered topics that were not normally found in mainstream PC publications, including video card and CPU overclocking, Windows registry tweaking and programming. The magazine's strapline was 'Maximum Power Computing', reflecting the broad nature of its technology content.

In November 2012 publisher Haymarket Media Group announced that Atomic would close and be merged into sister monthly title PC & Tech Authority (beginning with the February 2013 issue of PCTA), although the Atomic online forums would continue to exist in their own right and under the Atomic brand.

Atomic (Mogwai album)

Atomic is an original soundtrack album by Scottish post-rock band Mogwai, released on 1 April 2016 on Rock Action Records.

The music was originally composed for Mark Cousins' documentary Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise.

The album features entirely instrumental music from start to finish. The song titles allude to atomic bombs such as Little Boy and Tzar Bomba as well as scientific or military objects and concepts connected with nuclear warfare such as SCRAM, Uranium-235 and Pripyat, the abanoned city near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine.

It is the first Mogwai album to not feature guitarist John Cummings, who left the band in 2015.

Usage examples of "atomic".

Cut to Agar, inventor of the atomic napalm, holding Mara Corday on a hill above the burning city and the charring monster.

All the other customers had been thrown hundreds of yards away in every direction, and the merchandise had exploded into its component ions, except for the alembic, which sat in the center of the circle shining like an atomic pile.

But out there, the ships were real, capable of annihilating Corrin in yet another atomic attack, once they passed the Bridge and killed all the hostages aboard.

In the rear of the ashram, he felt as if he had just discovered atomic energy.

Developed by the General Atomic Company in a three-year research, the 750,000-pound rocket, carrying twelve Atomicians and six well-known scientists, took off from a specially built skyport near Buffalo, at noon, September 10, and landed on the moon, 250,000 miles distant, at 1 p.

Atomic Bomb, who had succeeded the Bogger Man as a means of frightening children, one of the younger calves bawled.

At mention of Atomic Bomb, who had succeeded the Bogger Man as a means of frightening children, one of the younger calves bawled.

Rather than devise a model of the atom based on theoretical ideas as Thomson had done, Rutherford intended to probe atomic structure by bombarding atoms with particles ejected from radioactive atoms.

A group of childless protectors had carved it out with solar mirrors and built into it a small life-support and controls system, a larger frozen-sleep chamber, a breeder atomic pile and generator, a dirigible ion drive, and an enormous cesium tank.

Deep in its guts it creates coherent atom beams, from a bunch of Bose-Einstein condensates hovering on the edge of absolute zero: by superimposing interference patterns on them, it generates an atomic hologram, building a perfect replica of some original artifact, right down to the atomic level there are no clunky moving nanotechnology parts to break or overheat or mutate.

New detergent scouring compounds containing phosphorus have the property of collecting and holding rare Earth elements, which are among the most abundant fission products resulting from an atomic blast.

For a moment, he considered telling them how he had devised a method of injecting lithium-6 deuteride directly into the core of an atomic bomb, making a thermonuclear reaction.

From where Diddy sat, he could see the intermittent glare of the atomic furnaces as the sky flared with a white, reflected fire.

It was translated into English, too, and had more effect on the favelas than an atomic bomb-burst.

This postulates a force-field of partly electromagnetic character, generated by gyromagnetic action within atomic nuclei near the center of the galaxy.