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atomic

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Adjective

  1. Of or relating to atoms; composed of atoms; monatomic.
  2. Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes.
  3. Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes: Very strong and overpowering.
  4. Infinitesimally small.
  5. Unable to be split or made any smaller.
  6. Unable to be split or made any smaller: Containing a single change, as opposed to involving numerous unrelated changes.
  7. Unable to be split or made any smaller: Lacking logical operators; unable to be made simpler in logical form.
  8. 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.
  9. Guaranteed to complete either fully or not at all while waiting in a pause, and running synchronously when called by multiple asynchronous threads.

Noun

  1. An atomic operation.

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