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What is the adjective for atomistic?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs atomize and atomise which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

atomic
  1. (physics) Of or relating to atoms.
  2. Of or employing nuclear energy or processes.
  3. Infinitesimally small.
  4. Unable to be split or made any smaller.
  5. (computing) Of an operation: guaranteed to complete either fully or not at all while waiting in a pause, and running synchronously when called by multiple asynchronous threads.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “A stream of atomic hydrogen will be emitted.”
      “The commentaries then launch into a discussion of whether the mind is atomic in size, or omnipresent.”
      “Many unusual problems are encountered in applying instrumentation to an atomic power plant.”
atomistic
  1. Of or pertaining to atoms or to atomism.
  2. Divided into separate elements; not holistic.
  3. (economics) Of a market: divided such that no single actor can noticeably affect market-wide values such as the price; competitive.
  4. Examples:
    1. “For testers, the problem has been one of reconciling the relative importance of the holistic and atomistic elements in a syllabus.”
      “They were nevertheless moderns in natural philosophy who accepted post-Galilean science, and propounded an atomistic theory of matter.”
      “I assume that she is invoking the liberal, atomistic concept of selfhood which posits a self prior to social relations.”
atomlike
  1. Resembling an atom or some aspect of one.
atomical
  1. Archaic form of atomic.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Unluckily his temperament was what the atomical philosophers call sanguine.”
      “The ancient Democritic or atomical physiology endows inert matter with a motive power.”
      “Or is it in your atomical corpuscles, 233which form such excellent works without the direction of any natural power or reason?”
atomless
  1. Without atoms.
atomized
atomizing
atomised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of atomise
atomising
  1. present participle of atomise
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