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Definition of Atom

Atom

  1. An ultimate indivisible particle of matter.
  2. An ultimate particle of matter not necessarily indivisible; a molecule.
  3. A constituent particle of matter, or a molecule supposed to be made up of subordinate particles.
  4. The smallest particle of matter that can enter into combination; one of the elementary constituents of a molecule.
  5. Anything extremely small; a particle; a whit.
  6. To reduce to atoms.

Atom Quotations

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Albert Einstein

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
George Orwell

The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
Harry S. Truman

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
Blaise Pascal

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
Jack London
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Atom Translations

atom in Danish is atom
atom in Dutch is atoom
atom in French is atome
atom in German is Atom {n}
atom in Swedish is atom

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