Definitions
1.nounAn atomic operation.
2.adjectiveOf or relating to atoms; composed of atoms; monatomic."A stream of atomic hydrogen is emitted."
3.adjectiveEmploying or relating to nuclear energy or processes."We built a small atomic bomb in the garage."
4.adjectiveInfinitesimally small."The hairs on a bedbug are almost atomic."
5.adjectiveUnable to be split or made any smaller."A bit is an atomic item of data."
6.adjectiveOf an operation: guaranteed to complete either fully or not at all while waiting in a pause, and running synchronously when called by multiple asynchronous threads."In order to avoid race conditions, this operation has to be atomic."
7.adjective(of a commit in a VCS) Containing a single change, as opposed to involving numerous unrelated changes.