ATOM

n. v.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

An ultimate indivisible particle of matter.

2.
n.

An ultimate particle of matter not necessarily indivisible; a molecule.

3.
n.

A constituent particle of matter, or a molecule supposed to be made up of subordinate particles.

4.
n.

The smallest particle of matter that can enter into combination; one of the elementary constituents of a molecule.

5.
n.

Anything extremely small; a particle; a whit. There was not an atom of water. Sir J. Ross.

6.
v.

To reduce to atoms. [Obs.] Feltham.

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