different between atomic vs nonatomic
atomic
English
Etymology
atom +? -ic
Pronunciation
- (General Australian) enPR: ??t?m.?k, IPA(key): /??t?m.?k/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ??t?m.?k, IPA(key): /??t?m.?k/
- (General American) enPR: ??tä.m?k, IPA(key): /??t??.m?k/
- Rhymes: -?m?k
Adjective
atomic (not comparable)
- (physics, chemistry) Of or relating to atoms; composed of atoms; monatomic.
- Antonym: molecular
- Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes.
- 1955, David J. Dallin, Soviet Espionage (page 495)
- Before the atomic spy Allan Nunn May left Canada to go to London, a treff in London had to be arranged for him and another agent.
- 1955, David J. Dallin, Soviet Espionage (page 495)
- Infinitesimally small.
- Unable to be split or made any smaller.
- (programming, of a commit in a VCS) Containing a single change, as opposed to involving numerous unrelated changes.
- (logic, of a proposition) Lacking logical operators; unable to be made simpler in logical form.
- (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.
- 2006, Tim Peierls, Brian Goetz, Joshua Bloch, Joseph Bowbeer, Doug Lea, David Holmes, Java Concurrency in Practice, Pearson Education (?ISBN), page 325:
- 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.
- 2006, Tim Peierls, Brian Goetz, Joshua Bloch, Joseph Bowbeer, Doug Lea, David Holmes, Java Concurrency in Practice, Pearson Education (?ISBN), page 325:
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
atomic (plural atomics)
- (computing) An atomic operation.
Anagrams
- -o-matic, matico
Occitan
Pronunciation
Adjective
atomic m (feminine singular atomica, masculine plural atomics, feminine plural atomicas)
- atomic
Related terms
- atòm, atòme
Romanian
Etymology
From French atomique
Adjective
atomic m or n (feminine singular atomic?, masculine plural atomici, feminine and neuter plural atomice)
- atomic
Declension
atomic From the web:
- what atomic number
- what atomic model is used today
- what can the atomic number tell you
- what does atomic number tell you
nonatomic
English
Etymology 1
non- +? atomic
Adjective
nonatomic (not comparable)
- Not atomic
Etymology 2
nona- +? atomic
Adjective
nonatomic (not comparable)
- (chemistry) Having nine atoms in each molecule
Anagrams
- nom. action., onomantic
nonatomic From the web:
- what is nonatomic in objective c
- what does monatomic mean
- what is nonatomic property
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