atomist
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- noun
- /ˈætəmɪst/
- Specialized
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atomista
- As an aspiring atomist, she dedicated her studies to understanding the intricate structures of matter at the atomic level.
Examples
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You know, we have the these atomists, there was a revival of this in the the modern age under, you know, for example, Pierre Gassendi.
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It was that old atomist everyone loves to hate who told us that "magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness."
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So he was an atomist and atom is, is indivisible.
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He rejected the whole Platonic tradition, preferring the Atomists and certain of the Pre-Socratics.
Academic text (2001) -
The logical atomists, such as Democritus and Leucippus, for instance, perceived the fundamental units of the cosmos, atoms, as the building blocks on which all forms of matter were constructed.
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Historians have long marvelled at the extent to which the metaphysical assumptions and speculative explanations of the ancient atomists anticipated a range of revolutionary scientific achievements over the past 150 years, both in physics and biology.
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Many scientists today credit the ancient atomists with laying the groundwork for modern chemistry and physics.
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The theories proposed by the early atomists suggested that matter could be divided into smaller and smaller parts until reaching indivisible atoms.
Compounds
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A theory that says all matter is made of tiny particles that cannot be divided called atoms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Atomist comes from the Greek word atomos, which means 'not cut' and is made from a- 'not' and tomos 'cut'. So an atomist is a person who studies the very small parts of matter that were thought to be impossible to cut into smaller pieces.