atomic

1. (physics, chemistry) Of or relating to atoms; composed of atoms; monatomic.Examples: "A stream of atomic hydrogen is emitted."Antonyms: molecularnot-comparable

2. Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes.Synonyms: nuclearbroadlycolloquialnot-comparable

3. Unable to be split or made any smaller.Synonyms: indivisible, unatomizablenot-comparable

4. Unable to be split or made any smaller.Synonyms: indivisible, unatomizablenot-comparable

5. Unable to be split or made any smaller.Synonyms: indivisible, unatomizablenot-comparable

6. (computing, of an operation) Guaranteed to complete either fully or not at all while waiting in a pause, and running synchronously when called by multiple asynchronous threads.Examples: "In order to avoid race conditions, this operation has to be atomic."; "Whenever possible, use atomic types instead of mutexes."; "It also provides an atomic compareAndSet method (which if successful has the memory effects of both reading and writing a volatile variable) and, for convenience, atomic add, increment, and decrement methods."not-comparable