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# atomic

«atomic» in Mova's school dictionary: **to do with atoms, the tiny particles everything is made of** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (atomic)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Atomic means to do with atoms, the tiny particles everything is made of. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atomic/#m2)

3) An atomic clock is a super-accurate clock using atoms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atomic/#m3)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atomic/#x1)
- The atomic bomb destroyed a whole city. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atomic/#x3)
- Everything has an atomic structure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atomic/#x4)
- We studied atomic energy in science. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atomic/#x5)
- Carbon's atomic number is 6. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atomic/#x6)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [Each GPS satellite keeps perfect time with an atomic clock and keeps calling out the time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/5/)
- [Phones get the time from the phone network or from GPS satellites, which carry atomic clocks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/123-pendulums-greenwich-atomic-clocks/23/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «atomic» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atomic/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.