Atom (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Physics 2 Theory 3 Music 4 Entertainment 5 Literature 6 Computing 7 Other 8 See also

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

Atom or Atomic may also refer to:

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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, 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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
• The basic units of QuickTime, MP4, 3GP, 3G2 and JPEG2000 multimedia container files. Atoms can contain other atoms (an atypical usage of the word), so in later standards they are called "boxes".

[edit] 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)
• Atoms, the "mascot" and name of sports teams of Annandale High School

[edit] See also

• Atomicity (disambiguation)