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# atomic

adjective (atomic)

«atomic» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Atomic means to do with atoms, the tiny particles everything is made of. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atomic/#m1)
2. Atomic means to do with nuclear energy or nuclear weapons, as in an atomic bomb. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atomic/#m2)
3. An atomic clock is a super-accurate clock using atoms. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atomic/#m3)

### In the lessons

In science, the atomic number tells how many protons an element has; the periodic table is ordered by it. In history, atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War Two. Atomic power stations make electricity.

### Examples

- Hydrogen has the atomic number 1. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atomic/#x1)
- The atomic bomb destroyed a whole city. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atomic/#x2)
- An atomic clock loses less than a second in millions of years. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atomic/#x3)
- Everything has an atomic structure. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atomic/#x4)
- We studied atomic energy in science. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atomic/#x5)
- Carbon's atomic number is 6. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atomic/#x6)

### Note

Noun: atom. «Atomic» and «nuclear» often mean the same in everyday talk.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «atomic» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atomic/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«atomic» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/atomic.html) on Mova free.