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ATOMS

"ATOMS" is a plural of: atom.

Date "ATOMS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)


Specialty Definition: ATOMS

DomainDefinition

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.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: ATOMS

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

ATOMS

EnglishHigh densities mass storage memories for knowledge and information storageN/A

ATOMS

FinnishTiheät massamuistit tietämyksen ja tiedon tallennuksessaN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms within Context: ATOMS

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: ATOMS

English words defined with "ATOMS": Doctrine of atoms. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ATOMS": implanted boron atoms. (references)
Etymologies containing "ATOMS": Smithereens. (references)

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Modern Usage: ATOMS

DomainUsage

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: ATOMS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Adventures With Atoms and Molecules: Chemistry Experiments for Young People (Adventures With Science , No 1) (reference)

  • Atoms and Molecules (reference)

  • Atoms in the Family: My Life With Enrico Fermi (reference)

  • Atoms, Electrons, and Change: A Scientific American Library Book (reference)

  • Density-Functional Theory of Atoms and Molecules (International Series of Monographs on Chemistry, No 16) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Understanding Atoms and Molecules (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: ATOMS

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: ATOMS

ThumbnailDescription & 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.

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Familiar Quotations: ATOMS

AuthorQuotation

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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Use in Literature: ATOMS

TitleAuthorQuote

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

The atoms have already learned this law, and are pregnant by it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: ATOMS

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: ATOMS

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)97.84%8598,231
Lexical Verb (-s form)1.93%1785,106
Noun (proper)0.23%2245,945
                    Total100.00%878N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: ATOMS

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.

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Modern Translation: ATOMS

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

   

Portuguese

  

Memórias de massa de alta densidade para armazenamento de conhecimento e informação (High densities mass storage memories for knowledge and information storage). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

атом (atom, atomy). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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)

   

Swedish

  

ATOMS (High densities mass storage memories for knowledge and information storage). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

chwilfriw (smashed to atoms). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: ATOMS

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

primordia. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: ATOMS

Derivations

Words ending with "ATOMS": antiatoms, diatoms, heteroatoms, subatoms. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "ATOMS"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "ATOMS" (pronounced a"tumz)
4-t u m zageratums, bantams, bottoms, customs, ecosystems, items, phantoms, subsystems, symptoms, systems, totems, ultimatums, victims.
3-u m zacronyms, 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.

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Anagrams: ATOMS

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Usage Frequency
11. Expressions
12. Translations: Modern
13. Translations: Ancient
14. Abbreviations
15. Acronyms
16. Derivations
17. Rhymes
18. Anagrams
19. Bibliography


  

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