Atom_(disambiguation)

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An atom is the smallest particle of a chemical element that retains its chemical properties.

Atom or Atomic may also refer to:

Physics

• Atomic number, the number of protons found in the nucleus of an atom
• The atomic bomb, a kind of nuclear weapon
• Atomic energy, now usually called Nuclear power

Theory

• Atomism, philosophy about the basic building blocks of reality
• Atom (measure theory), a minimal measurable set
• Atom (order theory)
• Atomic formula, a formula without subformulas
• Atom, a Ur-element, in set theory

Music

• A.T.O.M, a virtual album by Carbon/Silicon
• Atom Sounds, a record label
• Atomic (album), by the band Lit
• "Atomic" (song), by the band Blondie
• Atomic (jazz band), a Norwegian jazz quintet
• Atomic Kitten, an English all-female pop group
• Atomic Rooster, a British progressive rock band active from 1969-1973 and again from 1980-1986
• "Atom," a song by Cannibal Ox from their 2001 album The Cold Vein
• "Atomic", a song on the album Tiger Army III: Ghost Tigers Rise by the band Tiger Army
• Atom and His Package\', a band whose sole human member is Adam Goren

Entertainment

• Atom Films, an online video pioneer specializing in independently created short-form films and animations
• A.T.O.M. (Alpha Teens On Machines), a toyline, or its associated animated series
• Atomic chess, a chess variant
• Atom (game), an educational game published in 1983 for the TRS-80 home computer
• "Mighty Atom", the translation of the Japanese name of the animated series Astro Boy

Literature

• Atom (comics), superheroes of the DC Universe
• Atom: Journey Across the Subatomic Cosmos, a book by Isaac Asimov
• Atom, the narrator of The History and Adventures of an Atom, a satire by Tobias Smollett

Computing

• Intel Atom, a line of CPUs for ultra-mobile devices, formerly codenamed Silverthorne and Diamondville
• Atom (standard), an XML-based Web syndication format
• Acorn Atom, an early 1980s home computer
• Atomic operation, in computer science
• The lexical elements in Prolog, Lisp, and related programming languages
• A feature of the X Window protocol, used for referring to character strings

Other

• Ariel Atom, a high performance sports car made by Ariel Ltd
• Atomic (magazine), an Australian computing and technology magazine
• Atomic Skis, an Austrian ski producer
• Arthur Thomson, science fiction artist who signed his work Atom (often transcribed ATom)

See also

• Atomicity (disambiguation)

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