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atomics

American  
[uh-tom-iks] / əˈtɒm ɪks /

noun

(used with a singular verb)
  1. the branch of physics that deals with atoms, especially atomic energy.


Etymology

Origin of atomics

atomic, -ics

Example Sentences

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Westinghouse is moving fast in the growing field of industrial atomics.

From Time Magazine Archive

Minnesota, argue that the liberal arts major is more suited to the long haul of newspapering than the J-school man: his background is broader, better preparing him to cope with assignments from atomics to Zionism.

From Time Magazine Archive

General Electric's latest and most controversial contribution to atomics is a plan for U.S. industry to produce competitive commercial atomic power without Government subsidy�and produce it by 1965, a good five years before most estimates.

From Time Magazine Archive

The U.S. atomics industry and its works are as broad in scope as the uses of the atom.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was almost a hundred years since the Final War—not the nuclear holocaust the prewars had dreaded; there had been only a few atomics used, and most of those were relatively clean neutron bombs.

From The Alembic Plot A Terran Empire novel by Wilson, Ann