Definition of Atom

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Definition of Atom

Atom

An ultimate indivisible particle of matter.

An ultimate particle of matter not necessarily indivisible; a molecule.

A constituent particle of matter, or a molecule supposed to be made up of subordinate particles.

The smallest particle of matter that can enter into combination; one of the elementary constituents of a molecule.

Anything extremely small; a particle; a whit.

To reduce to atoms.

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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

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
Charles de Gaulle

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

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
Lord Byron

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

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.
Niels Bohr

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

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

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

The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
Mao Tse-Tung

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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