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"ATOMS" is a plural of: atom. |
Date "ATOMS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Weather | Minute particles that are the basic building blocks of all chemical elements and thus all matter. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ATOMS | English | High densities mass storage memories for knowledge and information storage | N/A |
ATOMS | Finnish | Tiheät massamuistit tietämyksen ja tiedon tallennuksessa | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Destruction | Smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shatter, shiver; batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate; nip; tear to rags, tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, engulf, ingulf, submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground; waste; atomize, vaporize. |
Disorder | Noun: disorder; derangement; irregularity; anomaly; (unconformity); anarchy, anarchism; want of method; untidiness; Adjective: disunion; discord. confusion; confusedness; Adjective: mishmash, mix; disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber; cahotage; farrago; mess, mash, muddle, muss, hash, hodgepodge; hotch-potch, hotch-pot; imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum, medley; mere mixture; fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra, rudis indigestaque moles. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: ATOMS |
| English words defined with "ATOMS": Doctrine of atoms. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ATOMS": implanted boron atoms. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ATOMS": Smithereens. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Yet you can explode one! A ray of sunlight is made up of many atoms. (Plan 9 from Outer Space; writing credit: Edward D. Wood Jr.) | |
Lyrics | We The People, the human beings, the occupiers of atoms (Anarchy Through Capitolism; performing artist: Kottonmouth Kings) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Young People's Concerts: Musical Atoms - A Study of Intervals (1965) | |
Song Titles | Jet Jaguar (performing artist: The Nick Atoms) Lost In Space (performing artist: The Nick Atoms) Who Is The Doctor? (performing artist: The Nick Atoms) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Say Perce, what's the name for those nuts that are always chasin' atoms and electrons ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Democritus | The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero | By some fortuitous concourse of atoms. . . |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | 'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The atoms have already learned this law, and are pregnant by it. |
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Health | Some atoms give off radiation, which is energy that travels through space. (references) | |
Most biological oxidations are accomplished by the removal of a pair of hydrogen atoms (dehydrogenation) from a molecule. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ATOMS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 97.84% of the time. "ATOMS" is used about 878 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 97.84% | 859 | 8,231 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 1.93% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.23% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 878 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "ATOMS": Doctrine of atoms ♦ fortuitous concourse of atoms ♦ implanted boron atoms ♦ vortex atoms. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ATOMS": atoms-to-ecologies, atoms-to-planet, atoms-to-societies. | |
Ending with "ATOMS": time-atoms. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ATOMS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Masselagre til tæt viden-og informationslagring (High densities mass storage memories for knowledge and information storage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Hoge-dichtheidsmassageheugens voor kennis-en informatieopslag (High densities mass storage memories for knowledge and information storage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ATOMS (High densities mass storage memories for knowledge and information storage), tiheät massamuistit tietämyksen ja tiedon tallennuksessa (High densities mass storage memories for knowledge and information storage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Mémoires de masse haute densité pour stockage des connaissances et de l'information. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Großspeicher mit hoher Packungsdichte für Wissens-und Informationsspeicherung (High densities mass storage memories for knowledge and information storage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | όταν στερεό και υγρό συνυπάρχουν,τα άτομα της ενδομετωπικής επιφάνειας περνούν από την μια φάση στην άλλη (the atoms at their interface pass from one state to the other, when a solid and a liquid co-exist), όταν μια δομή αυτού του τύπου αναθερμανθεί,εμφανίζονται,μέσω ενός μηχανισμού που δεν έχει ακόμη κατανοηθεί πλήρως,πυρήνες ανακρυστάλλωση (i.e. the atoms in the surrounding blocks line up on the crystal lattice of the nucleus), στο σημείο τήξης ο αριθμός των ατόμων που μεταναστεύουν από την στερεά στην υγρή φάση είναι ίσος με τον αριθμό ατόμων τα οποία μεταναστεύου (at the melting point the number of atoms which migrate from the solid to the liquid is equal to the number of atoms which migrate from the liquid to the solid), για να ερμηνεύσουμε τον σχηματισμό ατελειών σε επίπεδο ατόμου φαίνεται πιο εύκολο να δεχτούμε οτι οι ομάδες μερικώς διατετεγμένων ατόμων- (it seems easier to assume that groups of partly ordered atoms, to explain the formation of defects on the atomic scale), πριν την εμφάνιση μιας ορισμένης τροποποίησης στην συμμετρία του πλέγματος,περιοχές ιδίων διαστάσεων και συστάσεων οφείλουν να σχηματισθ (regions of appropriate dimensions and composition have to be formed solely by variations in the solute distribution due to the movement of the solute atoms), ενα υγρό είναι σύνολο ατόμων τα οποία περιβάλλονται κατά τρόπο στατιστικό από συγκεκριμένο αριθμό τυχαίων γειτονικών ατόμων και διαθέτου (a liquid is an assembly of atoms), εμφυτευμένα άτομα βορίου (implanted boron atoms), αντίθετα,όταν όλη η υγρή φάση εξαφανιστεί και ο χάλυβας παραμείνει στην στερεά φάση μόνο,η ετερογένεια τείνει να μειωθεί με διάχυση των αλλ (the heterogeneity tends to diminish by diffusion of the foreign atoms through the iron crystal lattice from the segregated zones towards the purer zones), τα επιφανειακά άτομα ενός τρισδιάστατου πυρήνα υφίστανται πέραν της θερμικής διατάραξης,συγκρούσεις από τα άτομα της υγρής φάσης (but also to collisions by the atoms of the liquid, the surface atoms of a three-dimensional nucleous are subjected not only to thermal agitation), τα άτομα,τοποθετημένα αρχικά επί ενός στοιχειώδους πλέγματος μετατοπίζονται για να λάβουν θέση επί των πλεγματικών σημείων μιας άλλης δομ (the atoms), το στερεό είναι μια κανονική συμπαγής διάταξη ατόμων η οποία επαναλαμβάνεται σε κανονική απόσταση και η οποία χαρακτηρίζει το κρυσταλλικό (a solid is a close-packed arrangement of atoms). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | porrá zúz (to break to atoms, to smash to atoms), apró darabokra tör (to break to atoms, to smash to atoms). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Memorie di massa ad alta densit per la memorizzazione di informazioni e di conoscenze (High densities mass storage memories for knowledge and information storage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 木端微塵 (broken into small fragments, smashed to atoms, smithereens), 木っ端微塵 (broken into small fragments, smashed to atoms, smithereens). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "っぱみじ" (broken into small fragments, smashed to atoms, smithereens). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atomsay Memórias de massa de alta densidade para armazenamento de conhecimento e informação (High densities mass storage memories for knowledge and information storage). (various references) атом (atom, atomy). (various references) Memorias de almacenamiento masivo de alta densidad para almacenamiento de conocimientos e información (High densities mass storage memories for knowledge and information storage). (various references) ATOMS (High densities mass storage memories for knowledge and information storage). (various references) chwilfriw (smashed to atoms). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | primordia. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "ATOMS": antiatoms, diatoms, heteroatoms, subatoms. (additional references) | |
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"ATOMS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acom, adomes, adums, aeons, aons, atam, Atame, atem, Atim, atmos, atmost, atms, Atmx, Atoes, atoma, atomb, atome, atomi, atomus, atony, atops, atos, atose, Atouma, atum, avons, etom, Etons, itons, maktowms, matmos, utom. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ATOMS" (pronounced a"tumz) |
| 4 | -t u m z | ageratums, bantams, bottoms, customs, ecosystems, items, phantoms, subsystems, symptoms, systems, totems, ultimatums, victims. |
| 3 | -u m z | acronyms, albums, algorithms, alums, amalgams, anachronisms, angstroms, antagonisms, anthems, aphorisms, aquariums, auditoriums, axioms, baptisms, blossoms, caladiums, chrysanthemums, columns, condominiums, condoms, consortiums, criticisms, curriculums, dirhams, doldrums, dualisms, emblems, embolisms, enthusiasms, euphemisms, fathoms, fiefdoms, forums, freedoms, geraniums, ginghams, Grahams, gymnasiums, herbariums, honorariums, hoodlums, idioms, isms, kingdoms, logarithms, mannerisms, maxims, mechanisms, mediums, memorandums, metabolisms, methodisms, microorganisms, millenniums, minimums, modems, monisms, moratoriums, museums, nostrums, organisms, orgasms, pilgrims, podiums, poems, possums, premiums, problems, puritanisms, quorums, ransoms, referendums, rhythms, schisms, sedums, sheikdoms, spasms, spectrums, stadiums, stratagems, surrealisms, symposiums, tantrums, transoms, welcomes, zirconiums. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: moats, stoma. | |
| Words within the letters "a-m-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: atom, mast, mats, moas, moat, most, mots, oast, oats, soma, stoa, tams, taos, toms. | |
-2 letters: mas, mat, moa, mos, mot, oat, oms, sat, som, sot, tam, tao, tas, tom. | |
-3 letters: am, as, at, ma, mo, om, os, so, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-m-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: almost, magots, mascot, matzos, smalto, somata, stomal, stomas, stroma, tomans. | |
+2 letters: aftmost, amatols, amongst, amorist, amosite, amounts, atomics, atomies, atomise, atomism, atomist, bombast, comates, combats, diatoms, fantoms, fathoms, flotsam, formats, impasto, maestro, maggots, mahouts, maltols, maltose, manitos, marmots, mascots, mastoid, matrons, matzohs, mortals, mortars, osmatic, osteoma, ostmark, outmans, outswam, postman, scotoma, sfumato, smaltos, somatic, somital, stardom, stomach, stomata, stomate, stromal, subatom, tampons, tombacs, tombaks, tomcats, topmast, transom, tsardom, twasome, wombats. | |
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