Synonyms for atom
ˈæt əmatom

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1. atomnoun

   Part, a substance, quantity, or amount that is the result of the division of something greater, is the general word, including all the others of this group. A fragment is the result of breaking, rending, or disruption of some kind, while a piece may be smoothly or evenly separated and have a certain completeness in itself. A piece is often taken for a sample; a fragment scarcely would be. Division and fraction are always regarded as in connection with the total; divisions may be equal or unequal; a fraction is one of several equal parts into which the whole is supposed to be divided. A portion is a part viewed with reference to some one who is to receive it or some special purpose to which it is to be applied; in a restaurant one portion (i. e., the amount designed for one person) is sometimes, by special order, served to two; a share is a part to which one has or may acquire a right in connection with others; an instalment is one of a series of proportionate payments that are to be continued till the entire claim is discharged; a particle is an exceedingly small part. A component, constituent, ingredient, or element is a part of some compound or mixture; an element is necessary to the existence, as a component or constituent is necessary to the completeness of that which it helps to compose; an ingredient may be foreign or accidental. A subdivision is a division of a division. We speak of a segment of a circle. Compare PARTICLE; PORTION.

   Synonyms:
   component, constituent, division, element, fraction, fragment, ingredient, instalment, member, part, part, particle, piece, portion, section, segment, share, subdivision

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1. atom

   Synonyms:
   molecule, particle, mote, speck, scrap, bit

   Antonyms:
   mass, whole, aggregate, lump

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. atomnoun

   (physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element

   Synonyms:
   mote, molecule, speck, corpuscle, particle

2. atom, molecule, particle, corpuscle, mote, specknoun

   (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything

   Synonyms:
   mote, jot, soupcon, touch, tinge, blood corpuscle, molecule, corpuscle, blood cell, particle, speck, hint, pinch, mite, pinpoint, subatomic particle

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1. • Physics
   • Substance

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1. atomnoun

   Synonyms:
   molecule, monad, ultimate particle (of any element), indivisible particle

2. atomnoun

   Synonyms:
   corpuscle, scrap, mite, bit, grain, jot, iota, tittle, whit, ace, scintilla

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1. atomnoun

   Synonyms:
   monad, molecule, particle, bit, iota, grain, scrap, scintilla

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1. List of paraphrases for "atom":

   atoms, atomic

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1. Ernest Rutheford:

   Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy.

2. Sir Arthur Eddington:

   I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

3. Walt Whitman:

   I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

4. Cheng Lijing:

   The amount of heat we have put in the worlds oceans in the past 25 years equals to 3.6 billion Hiroshima atom-bomb explosions, this measured ocean warming is irrefutable and is further proof of global warming. There are no reasonable alternatives aside from the human emissions of heat trapping gases to explain this heating.

5. Jim Eckles:

   Every neutron splits an atom, two neutrons come out they each split atoms, they split four more and it's a chain reaction, and it cascades and it all happens in a billionth of a second. Boom, you've got a nuclear explosion.