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atomic
[ uh-tom-ik ]
adjective
- of, pertaining to, resulting from, or using atoms, atomic energy, or atomic bombs:
an atomic explosion.
- propelled or driven by atomic energy:
an atomic submarine.
- Chemistry. existing as free, uncombined atoms.
- extremely minute.
atomic
/ əˈtɒmɪk /
adjective
- of, using, or characterized by atomic bombs or atomic energy
atomic warfare
- of, related to, or comprising atoms
atomic hydrogen
- extremely small; minute
- logic (of a sentence, formula, etc) having no internal structure at the appropriate level of analysis. In predicate calculus, Fa is an atomic sentence and Fx an atomic predicate
atomic
/ ə-tŏm′ĭk /
- Relating to an atom or to atoms.
- Employing nuclear energy.
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Derived Forms
- aˈtomically, adverb
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Other Words From
- a·tomi·cal·ly adverb
- nona·tomic adjective
- nona·tomi·cal adjective
- nona·tomi·cal·ly adverb
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Example Sentences
Following this line of reasoning to its logical conclusion, the way to achieve world peace is to give everyone atomic bombs.
Transcripts from hearings held by the Atomic Energy Commission in 1954 have recently been declassified and studied by scholars.
Producing one H-bomb would have diverted enough resources to produce 80 atomic warheads.
In 1957 the U.S. Army first fielded artillery able to fire shells with atomic warheads.
One of these critics was William Borden, executive director of the congressional joint committee on atomic energy.
It was a decades-old howitzer Burns called a “multi-ton behemoth” and the atomic shell had a range of only ten miles.
Although in that film, the briefcase contained an atomic bomb.
The department has no jurisdiction over atomic energy secrets.
All along, the atomic minuet with Tehran has been built on assumptions—ours and theirs—that are, as it turns out, erroneous.
“A person like Superman basically carries around a personal atomic bomb and he hides among us,” he says.
Millenium Series Godzilla erased the Heisei origin story of a Godzilla created by exposure to American atomic testing.
“Zohydro is an atomic bomb in a pill,” Sherrie Rubin from the FED Up!
It was simply too dangerous, too unthinkable, in the atomic age—unless the most vital of U.S. interests were at stake.
Perhaps part of that is gratification that the ridiculous concept itself is an atomic bust.
Finally there was the atomic bomb (and the Cold War it created): machine threatened to annihilate all of mankind.
Our best efforts to reach Palestinian-Israeli peace will come to nothing if Iran succeeds in building atomic bombs.
“At present, few scientists foresee any serious or practical use for atomic energy,” an article read.
ATOMIC ENERGY In 1938, Fortune magazine was disparaging about the future uses of atomic energy.
But Iran has just the same amassed a stockpile of enriched uranium, which could be used to make five or more atomic bombs.
Pale Fire is festooned with atomic references and a mockery of peaceniks.
We only know that under certain conditions the old atomic associations break up, and new ones are formed.
You have atomic weapons you intend using against your enemy—against the Eastern Empire?
Factories a long way under ground, behind the Soviet lines, factories that had once made atomic projectiles, now almost forgotten.
Then the author tells us of the atomic hypothesis of the formation of the Great World.
Obviously this electric time impulsor is a machine in the nature of an atomic integrator.
It was open, and the little black case which contained the unfinished atomic ray projector was gone.
Ankova transferred to his own belt the weapons of the corpse—his heavy pistol—his case of atomic grenades—his bejeweled war club.
In the midst of the first cloud, hundreds of minute specks of light were flashing—the atomic torpedoes were exploding.
The Atomic Ray arched angrily, cutting a deep swath through those who still sought a hold.
The great hydroelectric dams, the hundreds of steam turbines, the heavy-metal atomic reactors—all useless for power purposes.
She had an atomic weight upon which you could depend as upon any other known quantity.
The Karaites before Maimonides adopted the atomic theory without question.
The Mutakallimun were opposed to the Aristotelian theory of matter and form, and substituted for it the atomic theory.
But he shows himself a more loyal follower of the Kalam by frankly adopting the atomic theory, whereas Saadia opposes it (p. 25).
Maimonides's criticism of the atomic theory of matter and motion just described is that it undermines the bases of geometry.
This is the proof of the atomic theory and it has nothing to do with the matter of the origin of the world.
Epicurus too, he says, believed in the atomic theory, though he regarded the world as eternal.
As the title of the story indicates, he was even at that time occupied with the significance of atomic energy and nuclear physics.
We use a small atomic cavity radiator at one end of which is a rough relux parabolic filter.
You've achieved controlled, usable atomic energy through total annihilation of mass.
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