Définitions
1.AdjectiveOf or relating to atoms; composed of atoms; monatomic."A stream of atomic hydrogen is emitted."
2.AdjectiveEmploying or relating to nuclear energy or processes."atomic energy; atomic bombs; Some nutjob once built a small atomic pile in his back yard."
3.AdjectiveVery strong and overpowering.
4.AdjectiveInfinitesimally small."The hairs on a dust mite are almost atomic."
5.AdjectiveUnable to be split or made any smaller."A bit is an atomic item of data."
6.AdjectiveContaining a single change, as opposed to involving numerous unrelated changes.
7.AdjectiveLacking logical operators; unable to be made simpler in logical form.
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9.AdjectiveGuaranteed 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.; Whenever possible, use atomic types instead of mutexes."
10.NounAn atomic operation.