Word Meanings - ATOM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The smallest particle of matter that can enter into combination; one of the elementary constituents of a molecule. 3. Anything extremely small; a particle; a whit. There was not an atom of water. Sir J. Ross. (more info) An ultimate indivisible

Additional info about word: ATOM

The smallest particle of matter that can enter into combination; one of the elementary constituents of a molecule. 3. Anything extremely small; a particle; a whit. There was not an atom of water. Sir J. Ross. (more info) An ultimate indivisible particle of matter. An ultimate particle of matter not necessarily indivisible; a molecule. A constituent particle of matter, or a molecule supposed to be made up of subordinate particles. Note: These three definitions correspond to different views of the nature of the ultimate particles of matter. In the case of the last two, the particles are more correctly called molecules. Dana.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ATOM)

• Ace
• Unit
• atom
• point
• title
• jot
• item
• Corpuscle
• Atom
• particle
• monad
• molecule
• Element
• Component
• part
• Iota
• Jot
• tittle
• trace
• Tittle
• cipher
• trifle
• rush
• fig
• thought
• idea
• bit
• scrap
• morsel
• fraction
• iota
• whit

Related words: (words related to ATOM)

• TITLELESS
  Not having a title or name; without legitimate title. "A titleless tyrant." Chaucer.
• CORPUSCLE
  A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles. See Blood. Virchow showed that the corpuscles of bone
• TITLED
  Having or bearing a title.
• TITTLEBAT
  The three-spined stickleback.
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• TITLER
  A large truncated cone of refined sugar.
• ELEMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope. 2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary.
• ELEMENT
  1. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. 2. One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically:
• COMPONENT
  Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent. The component parts of natural bodies. Sir I. Newton.
• THOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Think.
• SCRAPING
  1. The act of scraping; the act or process of making even, or reducing to the proper form, by means of a scraper. 2. Something scraped off; that which is separated from a substance, or is collected by scraping; as, the scraping of the street.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• CIPHER
  A character which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold. 2. One who, or that which, has no weight or influence. Here he was a mere cipher. W. Irving. 3. A character
• THOUGHTLESS
  1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act. 2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. Johnson. 3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden. -- Thought"less*ly,
• POINTAL
  The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.
• POINTED
  1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope.
• ELEMENTALITY
  The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed.
• POINT ALPHABET
  An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters.
• LADY'S TRACES; LADIES' TRESSES; LADIES TRESSES
  A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• BETHOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Bethink.
• UNREMORSELESS
  Utterly remorseless. "Unremorseless death." Cowley.
• TROIS POINT
  The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.