atomic
Short definition from Wiktionary
Adjective
- Of or relating to atoms; composed of atoms; monatomic.
- Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes.
- Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes: Very strong and overpowering.
- Infinitesimally small.
- Unable to be split or made any smaller.
- Unable to be split or made any smaller: Containing a single change, as opposed to involving numerous unrelated changes.
- Unable to be split or made any smaller: Lacking logical operators; unable to be made simpler in logical form.
- Unable to be split or made any smaller: Such that for every element b>0 there exists an atom a such that b≥a>0.
- Guaranteed to complete either fully or not at all while waiting in a pause, and running synchronously when called by multiple asynchronous threads.
Noun
- An atomic operation.
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