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 →

2) Atomic means to do with nuclear energy or nuclear weapons, as in an atomic bomb. tree →

3) An atomic clock is a super-accurate clock using atoms. tree →

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 →
• The atomic bomb destroyed a whole city. tree →
• An atomic clock loses less than a second in millions of years. tree →
• Everything has an atomic structure. tree →
• We studied atomic energy in science. tree →
• Carbon's atomic number is 6. tree →

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.
• Phones get the time from the phone network or from GPS satellites, which carry atomic clocks.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «atomic» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.