Definitions for atom

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atom at·om

Spelling: [at-uh m]

IPA: /ˈæt əm/

Atom is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in atom (amot).

Definitions for atom

noun

1. Physics. the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element, consisting of a nucleus containing combinations of neutrons and protons and one or more electrons bound to the nucleus by electrical attraction; the number of protons determines the identity of the element. an atom with one of the electrons replaced by some other particle:
2. Energy. this component as the source of nuclear energy.
3. a hypothetical particle of matter so minute as to admit of no division.
4. anything extremely small; a minute quantity.

Origin of atom

1350-1400; Middle English attomos, athomus Latin atomus Greek átomos, noun use of átomos undivided, equivalent to a- a-⁶ + tomós divided, verbid of témnein to

Examples for atom

You have the atom, which has the neutron, the electron, the proton.

Each type of atom and molecule has its own unique spectrum, according to the rules of quantum mechanics.

Fictions or realities, could they survive the touchstone of this atom of common sense?

It wad but raise a strife atween the twa, ohn dune an atom o' guid.

Even the good things that the atom had brought were destroyed in the panic that ensued.

Releasing a new issue was like dropping an atom bomb on the industry.

The atom retains its identity through all combinations and processes.

Check: “This atom smashing business is going to herald the final victory of the machine.”

The ion differs from the molecule, the corpuscle and the atom in that it is an ion.

A face in a sea of faces, how could you know he hid among them like Oppenheimer, building a lab to split the atom.