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English

Alternative forms

• atomus (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English attome, from Middle French athome, from Latin atomus (“smallest particle”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (átomos, “indivisible”), from ?- (a-, “not”) +? ????? (témn?, “I cut”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?t'?m, IPA^(key): /?at?m/
• Homophone: Adam (in dialects with flapping)
• Hyphenation: at?om

Noun

atom (plural atoms)

1. (chemistry, physics) The smallest possible amount of matter which still retains its identity as a chemical element, now known to consist of a nucleus surrounded by electrons. [from 16th c.]
2. (history of science) A hypothetical particle posited by Greek philosophers as an ultimate and indivisible component of matter. [from 15th c.]
3. (now generally regarded figuratively) The smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit of something. [from 17th c.]
4. (philosophy) In logical atomism, a fundamental fact that cannot be further broken down.
5. (historical) The smallest medieval unit of time, equal to fifteen ninety-fourths of a second. [from 10th c.]
6. A mote of dust in a sunbeam. [from 16th c.]
7. A very small amount; a whit. [from 17th c.]
8. (computing, programming, Lisp) An individual number or symbol, as opposed to a list; a scalar value. [from 20th c.]
9. (mathematics, algebra) A non-zero member of a Boolean algebra that is not a union of any other elements. Or, a non-zero member of a Boolean lattice that has only zero below it. [from 20th c.]

   In a Venn diagram, an atom is depicted as an area circumscribed by lines but not cut by any line.

10. (mathematics, set theory) An element of a set that is not itself a set; an urelement. [from 20th c.]
11. (usually capitalised as "Atom") A member of an age group division in hockey for ten- to 11-year-olds.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:atom
• (small amount): see also Thesaurus:modicum.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• ?
• chemical element

Further reading

• atom on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Amto, Mato, Mota, TMAO, atmo, moat, mota, toma

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?atom]

Noun

atom m

1. (physics) atom

Related terms

• atomový
• atomický

Further reading

• atom in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• atom in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

Via German Atom n and Latin atomus f from Ancient Greek ?????? (??????) f (átomoi (phúseis)), ????? (??????) n (átoma (s?mata), “indivisible particles of matter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a?t?o?m]

Noun

atom n (singular definite atomet, plural indefinite atomer)

1. atom

Inflection

Hungarian

Etymology

From English atom, from Ancient Greek ?????? (átomos, “indivisible”), from ?- (a-, “not”) + ????? (témn?, “I cut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??tom]
• Hyphenation: atom
• Rhymes: -om

Noun

atom (plural atomok)

1. atom

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• atom in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• atom in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2021)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch atoom (“atom”), from French atome, from Latin atomus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (átomos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?atom]
• Hyphenation: a?tom

Noun

atom (first-person possessive atomku, second-person possessive atommu, third-person possessive atomnya)

1. (chemistry, physics) atom, the smallest possible amount of matter which still retains its identity as a chemical element, now known to consist of a nucleus surrounded by electrons.
2. (figuratively) modern

   Synonyms: modern, mutakhir

3. (figuratively) plastic, a synthetic, solid, hydrocarbon-based polymer, whether thermoplastic or thermosetting.

   Synonym: plastik

Derived terms

Further reading

• “atom” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Etymology

From English atom, from Old French atome, from Latin atomus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (átomos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /atom/
• Rhymes: -atom, -tom, -om

Noun

atom (plural atom-atom, informal 1st possessive atomku, impolite 2nd possessive atommu, 3rd possessive atomnya)

1. (physics) atom (physics: smallest possible amount of matter retaining its chemical properties)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (átomos, “indivisible, uncut, undivided”), both from ?- (a-, “not, without”), from Proto-Hellenic *?- (“un-, not; without, lacking”), from Proto-Indo-European *n?- (“not, un-”) + and from ????? (témn?, “I cut, hew, wound, butcher”), fom Proto-Indo-European *tm?-n-h?-, from *temh?- (“to cut”).

Noun

atom n (definite singular atomet, indefinite plural atom or atomer, definite plural atoma or atomene)

1. an atom

Derived terms

• atommasse
• atomvekt

Related terms

• atom- (prefix)

References

• “atom” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (átomos)

Noun

atom n (definite singular atomet, indefinite plural atom, definite plural atoma)

1. an atom

Derived terms

• atommasse
• atomvekt

Related terms

• atom- (prefix)

References

• “atom” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin atomus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ado?/

Noun

atom m

1. atom, mote

Inflection

Descendants

• Middle Irish: atam
  • Irish: adamh

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.t?m/

Noun

atom m inan

1. (physics) atom

Declension

Derived terms

• atomowy

Further reading

• atom in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French atome, from Latin atomus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?tom/

Noun

atom m (plural atomi)

1. atom

Declension

Further reading

• atom in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (átomos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?to?m/
• Hyphenation: a?tom

Noun

àt?m m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. atom

Declension

References

• “atom” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Swedish

Noun

atom c

1. atom; the smallest particle to retain the properties of the element
2. (historical) atom; the theoretically smallest possible particle

Declension

Related terms

See also

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French atome.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??t?m]

Noun

atom (definite accusative atomu, plural atomlar)

1. (physics) atom
2. a kind of sugary drink common in and around Mersin province

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English pinchen, from Old French *pinchier, pincer (“to pinch”), from Vulgar Latin *pinci?re (“to puncture, pinch”), from possible merger of *puncti?re (“a puncture, sting”), from Latin puncti? (“a puncture, prick”) and *picc?re (“to strike, sting”), from Frankish *pikk?n, from Proto-Germanic *pikk?n? (“to pick, peck, prick”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Verb

pinch (third-person singular simple present pinches, present participle pinching, simple past and past participle pinched)

1. To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

   The children were scolded for pinching each other.

   This shoe pinches my foot.

2. To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
3. To squeeze between two objects.
4. (slang, transitive) To steal, usually something inconsequential.

   Someone has pinched my handkerchief!
5. (slang, transitive) To arrest or capture.
6. (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
7. (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
8. (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
9. (obsolete, intransitive) To be stingy or covetous; to live sparingly.

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   • 1788, Benjamin Franklin (attributed), Paper

     the wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare

10. To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.
11. (figuratively) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.

    to be pinched for money

    • c. 1610?, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse of War

      want of room […] which pincheth the whole nation

    • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 2:

      The Christian also spurns the pinched and mumping sick-room attitude, and the lives of saints are full of a kind of callousness to diseased conditions of body which probably no other human records show.

12. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
13. (obsolete) To complain or find fault.
    • 1809, Alexander Chalmers ed. The Works of the English Poets, from Cahucer to Cowper, Vol. 1, modern rendering of poem imputed to Geoffrey Chaucer, "A Ballad which Chaucer made in Praise or rather Dispraise of Women for their Doubleness":

      Therefore who so them accuse

      Of any double entencion,

      To speake, rowne, other to muse,

      To pinch at their condicion,

      All is but false collusion,

      I dare rightwell the sothe express,

      They have no better protection,

      But shrowd them vnder doubleness.

Derived terms

• pinch off
• pinch out
• pinch a loaf

Translations

Noun

pinch (plural pinches)

1. The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
2. A close compression of anything with the fingers.

   I gave the leather of the sofa a pinch, gauging the texture.

3. A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
4. An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
   • 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 171:

     It took nerve and muscle both to carry the body out and down the stairs to the lower hall, but he damn well had to get it out of his place and away from his door, and any of those four could have done it in a pinch, and it sure was a pinch.

5. A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
6. An organic herbal smoke additive.
7. (physics) A magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament.
8. The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
   • 2001, Terry Pratchett: Thief of Time:

     It looked like an hourglass, but all those little glittering shapes tumbling through the pinch were seconds.

9. (slang) An arrest.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (pinchi)

Translations