atomic

adjective

Structure or a situation that can not be further decomposed / subdivided
fictional nuclear weapon in the Dune franchise

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /əˈtɒm.ɪk/ / /əˈtɑː.mɪk/ / /əˈtɔm.ɪk/

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) Proto-Indo-European *temh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō) Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Hellenic *-ós ▲ Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ. Ancient Greek -ός (-ós) Ancient Greek *τομός (*tomós) Ancient Greek ἄτομος (átomos)bor. Latin atomusbor. Middle French athomebor. Middle English attome English atom Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English atomic From atom + -ic.

Of or relating to atoms; composed of atoms; monatomic.
“A stream of atomic hydrogen is emitted.”
Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes.
“atomic energy; atomic bombs”
“Some nutjob once built a small atomic pile in his back yard.”
Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes.
Infinitesimally small.
“The hairs on a dust mite are almost atomic.”
Unable to be split or made any smaller.
“A bit is an atomic item of data.”
Unable to be split or made any smaller.
Unable to be split or made any smaller.
Unable to be split or made any smaller.
Guaranteed to complete either fully or not at all while waiting in a pause, and running synchronously when called by multiple asynchronous threads.
“In order to avoid race conditions, this operation has to be atomic.”
“Whenever possible, use atomic types instead of mutexes.”

noun

An atomic operation.