Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The process of atomizing or the state of being atomized; specifically, in medicine, the reduction of liquids to the form of spray for inhalation or for application to the throat or nasal passages, and for other purposes. Also spelled
atomisation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of reducing to atoms, or very minute particles; or the state of being so reduced.
- noun (Med.) The reduction of fluids into fine spray.
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- noun The act, or an instance of
atomizing
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun annihilation by reducing something to atoms
- noun separating something into fine particles
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Examples
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One reason for the atomization is pervasive mistrust and corruption, plus a shaky rule of law.
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One reason for the atomization is pervasive mistrust and corruption, plus a shaky rule of law.
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Such granular metrics are the publishing equivalent of what I've been calling the atomization of computing and content.
BNET Articles Erik Sherman 2010
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Gettman, who teaches at Shenandoah University and lives in Lovettsville, Va., calls it the "atomization" of marijuana cultivation that fuels a singularly American fixation for growing crops to maximize yield.
Boutique buds: What underground mom-and-pop growers did while we debated legalization Adrian Higgins 2010
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Moreover, such a system would prevent the "atomization" of society so much desired by the revolutionaries who wished to remake in a new form that which had been pulverized by liberalism.10
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He was -- he was very concerned that in a society where individualism was so prized, eventually that could lead to a kind of atomization and fragmentation of society and culture.
American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change & the 20th Century 1999
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It's a kind of atomization, a trend towards getting things into smaller units so that we can handle them, believe in them.
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Hence GET THE "atomization" i.e. the framing of the strategic challenge is GET THE "atomization" i.e. the framing of the strategic challenge is ORGANIZATIO crucial.
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McGrath said that more than the proliferation of screens and "atomization" of content, for the kids and teens who make up a big chunk of the demographic for MTV and its properties, "We have the advantage of a brand, and we have relevance which is always been the name of our game."
unknown title Karl Greenberg <kgberg@yahoo.com> 2009
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*** And, when one reads Berlin's qualified praise of Herzen, it's easy to see how he became central to Stoppard's three plays: "Herzen does at least face genuine political problems, such as the incompatibility of unlimited personal liberty with either social equality, or the minimum of social organization and authority; the need to sail precariously between the Scylla of individualist 'atomization' and the Charybdis of collectivist oppression; the sad disparity and conflict between many, equally noble human ideals; the nonexistence of 'objective,' eternal, universal moral and political standards, to justify either coercion or resistance to it; the mirage of distant ends, and the impossibility of doing wholly without them."
Stinky Inky, Part VI: Carlin Romano's April Fools' Joke on His Philadelphia Inquirer Readers 2007
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