English-Italian translations for atom

• atomo
  Ma non per questo bisogna concludere che l'URSS preservava l'Europa dai pericoli dell'atomo. But we should not conclude from that that it was the USSR that was preserving Europe from the atomic threat.
  Recentemente ho visitato una scuola nel mio collegio elettorale, dove agli studenti era stato assegnato il compito di reperire una fotografia di un atomo. Recently I visited a school in my constituency where the pupils were given an assignment which was to go and draw a picture of an atom.
  Stiamo percorrendo la stessa strada dell’atomo: ragionando sull’atomo siamo arrivati alla bomba atomica, e ora abbiamo bisogno di regole per rientrare. We are going the same way as we did with the atom: in exploring the possibilities of the atom we made the atom bomb, and now we need rules to take us back a step.
• atomico
  Ciò indica chiaramente le reali intenzioni del programma atomico iraniano, che se fossero unicamente pacifiche non avrebbero nessun bisogno di essere nascoste. This clearly shows the real intentions of the Iranian atomic programme; if they were solely peaceful, there would be no need to hide them.
  Trasporterà altre apparecchiature ad alta tecnologia, come l’orologio atomico del tipo MASER passivo all’idrogeno, che sarà l’orologio atomico più preciso mai lanciato nello spazio. It will carry other technologically advanced equipment such as the passive hydrogen MASER atomic clock, which will be the most precise atomic clock ever launched into space.
  Abbiamo visto a cosa ha portato in Iraq, dove è scoppiata una guerra terribile a causa di un armamento atomico basato su tecnologia originariamente civile. We have seen where it led in Iraq, where a terrible war took place following atomic armament based originally on civilian technology.

Definition of atom

• The smallest possible amount of matter which still retains its identity as a chemical element, now known to consist of a nucleus surrounded by electrons.
• A hypothetical particle posited by Greek philosophers as an ultimate and indivisible component of matter.
• In logical atomism, a fundamental fact that cannot be further broken down
• A mote of dust in a sunbeam.
• An individual number or symbol, as opposed to a list; a scalar value.
• An element of a set that is not itself a set; an urelement.

Examples

• In a Venn diagram, an atom is depicted as an area circumscribed by lines but not cut by any line.

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