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Atom (disambiguation)

An atom is the following:

Generally, an atom is the smallest irreducible constituent of a chemical system.
In Prolog, an atom is a specific value (as opposed to an unbound variable, which represents all possible values).
The Japanese name, Atom is the name of the popular animated character known in English as Astroboy.
In web syndication, Atom is a standard XML format.
An atom is a non-zero member of a Boolean algebra that is not a join of any other elements.
Atom: Journey Across the Subatomic Cosmos is a book by Isaac Asimov.
The Acorn Atom was an early eighties home computer.
An atom or atomic value is an element of a programming language that is considered to have no parts -- a single unit. Most atoms are single characters, such as + or 3; but some atoms are built of several characters, such as MediaWiki's subst or pascal's begin and end.

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