Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state of being composed of atoms.
- noun The number of atoms in a molecule.
- noun Valence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In chem., same as
equivalency and quantivalency.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) Degree of atomic attraction; equivalence; valence; also (a later use) the number of atoms in an elementary molecule. See
valence .
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- noun uncountable The quality or state of being
atomic —of being indivisible. - noun chemistry The number of
atoms in amolecule . - noun computing The state of a
system (often adatabase system) in which either all stagescomplete ornone complete.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The saturating power is called atomicity or valency.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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The lecturer objected most strongly to the word "atomicity;" he could not conceive of one atom being more atomic than another; he could understand the atomicity of
Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various
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As it says, rdiff-backup does make an effort to recover from different types of errors in different ways, to leave the database in a consistent state in the face of unrecoverable errors, and reverse failed backup sessions (effecting a kind of atomicity between sessions).
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That is, it helps transactions achieve atomicity, which is one of the four properties (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and
SQL Server 2010
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The atomicity of L follows if we assume that every pure state represents a “physical property”.
Puppet X: 1 2009
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Depleted Uranium Contaminates Europe"Dr. Katsuma Yagasaki, a Japanese physicist at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, has estimated that the atomicity equivalent of at least 400,000 Nagasaki bombs has been released into the global atmosphere since 1991, from the use of depleted uranium munitions."
Archive 2006-02-01 Michael Caddell 2006
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Dr. Katsuma Yagasaki, a Japanese physicist at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, has estimated that the atomicity equivalent of at least 400,000 Nagasaki bombs has been released into the global atmosphere since 1991, from the use of depleted uranium munitions.
Archive 2006-02-01 Michael Caddell 2006
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Depleted Uranium Contaminates Europe"Dr. Katsuma Yagasaki, a Japanese physicist at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, has estimated that the atomicity equivalent of at least 400,000 Nagasaki bombs has been released into the global atmosphere since 1991, from the use of depleted uranium munitions."
Depleted Uranium detected in Europe Michael Caddell 2006
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Dr. Katsuma Yagasaki, a Japanese physicist at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, has estimated that the atomicity equivalent of at least 400,000 Nagasaki bombs has been released into the global atmosphere since 1991, from the use of depleted uranium munitions.
Depleted Uranium detected in Europe Michael Caddell 2006
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This approach, it is claimed, is mediated by the androcentrism of Otto's worldview, entrapped in issues of domination, atomicity, and submission.
Mysticism Gellman, Jerome 2005
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