| atomic |
| 1. adj. (physics, chemistry) Of or relating to atoms; composed of atoms; monatomic. | |
| A stream of atomic hydrogen is emitted. | |
| 2. adj. Of or employing nuclear energy or processes. | |
| We built a small atomic bomb in the garage. | |
| 3. adj. Infinitesimally small. | |
| The hairs on a bedbug are almost atomic. | |
| 4. adj. Unable to be split or made any smaller. | |
| A bit is an atomic item of data. | |
| 5. adj. (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. | |
| In order to avoid race conditions, this operation has to be atomic. | |
| Whenever possible, use atomic types instead of mutexes. | |
| 6. n. (computing) An atomic operation. | |
| physics |
| 1. n. The branch of science concerned with the study of the properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy. | |
| Newtonian physics was extended by Einstein to explain the effects of travelling near the speed of light; quantum physics extends it to account for the behaviour of atoms. | |
| 2. n. The physical aspects of a phenomenon or a system, especially those studied scientifically. | |
| The physics of car crashes would not let Tom Cruise walk away like that. | |
| 3. n. plural of physic | |
| 4. v. third-person singular present indicative of physic | |
| unperturbed |
| 1. adj. Not perturbed | |
| over |
| 1. adj. Discontinued; ended or concluded. | |
| The show is over. | |
| 2. adv. Thoroughly; completely; from beginning to end. | |
| Let's talk over the project at tomorrow's meeting. | |
| Let me think that over. | |
| I'm going to look over our department's expenses. | |
| 3. adv. To an excessive degree; overly. | |
| 4. adv. From an upright position to being horizontal. | |
| He tipped the bottle over, and the water came gushing out. | |
| That building just fell over! | |
| He bent over to touch his toes. | |
| 5. adv. Horizontally; left to right or right to left. | |
| Slide the toilet-paper dispenser's door over when one roll is empty in order to reveal the other. | |
| I moved over to make room for him to sit down. | |
| 6. adv. From one position or state to another. | |
| Please pass that over to me. | |
| He came over to our way of thinking on the new project. | |
| Come over and play! | |
| I'll bring over a pizza. | |
| 7. adv. Overnight (throughout the night). | |
| We stayed over at Grandma's. | |
| Can I sleep over? | |
| 8. adv. (US, usually with do) Again; another time; once more; over again. | |
| I lost my paper and I had to do the entire assignment over. | |
| 9. adv. (procedure word, military) a procedure word meaning that a station is finished transmitting and is expecting a response. | |
| Bravo Six, this is Bravo Six Four. Stand by for ten mike report one dash three, over. | |
| Bravo Six Four, this is Bravo Six Actual. Send your traffic, over. | |
| 10. n. (cricket) A set of six legal balls bowled. | |
| 11. n. Any surplus amount of money, goods delivered, etc. | |
| 12. prep. Physical positioning. | |
| 13. prep. On top of; above; higher than; further up. | |
| Hold the sign up over your head. climb up the ladder and look over the roof | |
| 14. prep. Across or spanning. | |
| There is a bridge over the river. | |
| 15. prep. In such a way as to cover. | |
| drape the fabric over the table; there is a roof over the house | |
| 16. prep. From one physical position to another via an obstacle that must be traversed vertically, first upwards and then downwards. | |
| The dog jumped over the fence. | |
| I'll go over the fence first and then help you. | |
| Let's walk over the hill to get there. | |
| 17. prep. By comparison. | |
| 18. prep. More than; to a greater degree. | |
| I prefer the purple over the pink. | |
| 19. prep. Beyond; past; exceeding; too much or too far. | |
| I think I’m over my limit for calories for today. | |
| 20. prep. (in certain collocations) As compared to. | |
| Sales are down this quarter over last. | |
| 21. prep. Indicating relative status, authority, or power | |
| The owner's son lorded over the experienced managers. | |
| The prince ruled over a portion of the kingdom. | |
| 22. prep. (mathematics) Divided by. | |
| four over two equals two over one | |
| 23. prep. (poker) (Separates the three of a kind from the pair in a full house.) | |
| 9♦9♠9♣6♥6♠ = nines over sixes | |
| 24. prep. Finished with; done with; from one state to another via a hindrance that must be solved or defeated; or via a third state that represents a significant difference from the first two. | |
| We got over the engineering problems and the prototype works great. | |
| I am over my cold and feel great again. | |
| I know the referee made a bad call, but you have to get over it your annoyance with the referee's decision. | |
| She is finally over the distress of losing her job. | |
| He is finally over his distress over the loss of the relationship with his ex-girlfriend. | |
| 25. prep. While using, especially while consuming. | |
| 26. prep. Concerning or regarding. | |
| The two boys had a fight over whose girlfriend was the best. | |
| 27. prep. Above, implying superiority after a contest; in spite of; notwithstanding. | |
| We triumphed over difficulties. | |
| The bill was passed over the veto. | |
| It was a fine victory over their opponents. | |
| 28. interj. In radio communications: end of sentence, ready to receive reply. | |
| How do you receive? Over! | |
| 29. n. (rare, dialectal, or obsolete) A shore, riverbank. | |
| The sea's over. | |
| time |
| 1. n. The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past. | |
| Time stops for nobody. the ebb and flow of time | |
| 2. n. (physics, usually) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension. | |
| Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel through time. | |
| 3. n. (physics) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy. | |
| Time slows down when you approach the speed of light. | |
| 4. n. (physics, reductionistic definition) The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration. | |
| An essential definition of time should entail neither speed nor direction, just change. | |
| 5. n. A duration of time. | |
| 6. n. A quantity of availability of duration. | |
| More time is needed to complete the project. You had plenty of time, but you waited until the last minute. Are you finish | |
| 7. n. A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression. | |
| a long time; Record the individual times for the processes in each batch. Only your best time is compared with the other compet | |
| 8. n. (slang) The serving of a prison sentence. | |
| The judge leniently granted a sentence with no hard time. He is not living at home because he is doing time. | |
| 9. n. An experience. | |
| We had a wonderful time at the party. | |
| 10. n. An era; (with the, sometimes in plural) the current era, the current state of affairs. | |
| Roman times; the time of the dinosaurs | |
| 11. n. (with possessive) A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day. | |
| In my time, we respected our elders. | |
| 12. n. (only in singular, sports) Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play. | |
| 13. n. An instant of time. | |
| 14. n. How much of a day has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device. | |
| Excuse me, have you got the time? What time is it, do you guess? Ten o’clock? A computer keeps time using a clock battery | |
| 15. n. A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive). | |
| it’s time for bed; it’s time to sleep; we must wait for the right time; it's time we were going | |
| 16. n. A numerical indication of a particular moment. | |
| at what times do the trains arrive?; these times were erroneously converted between zones | |
| 17. n. An instance or occurrence. | |
| When was the last time we went out? I don’t remember. | |
| see you another time; that’s three times he’s made the same mistake | |
| Okay, but this is the last time. No more after that! | |
| 18. n. (of pubs) Closing time. | |
| Last call: it's almost time. | |
| 19. n. The hour of childbirth. | |
| 20. n. (as someone's time) The end of someone's life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined. | |
| It was his time. | |
| 21. n. The measurement under some system of region of day or moment. | |
| Let's synchronize our watches so we're not on different time. | |
| 22. n. Ratio of comparison. | |
| your car runs three times faster than mine; that is four times as heavy as this | |
| 23. n. (grammar, dated) Tense. | |
| the time of a verb | |
| 24. n. (music) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division. | |
| common or triple time; the musician keeps good time. | |
| 25. v. To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of. | |
| I used a stopwatch to time myself running around the block. | |
| 26. v. To choose when something begins or how long it lasts. | |
| The President timed his speech badly, coinciding with the Super Bowl. | |
| The bomb was timed to explode at 9:20 p.m. | |
| 27. v. (obsolete) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time. | |
| 28. v. (obsolete) To pass time; to delay. | |
| 29. v. To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement. | |
| 30. v. To measure, as in music or harmony. | |
| 31. interj. (tennis) Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause. | |
