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Business Definition for: Atom

  • any traditional nondigital means of delivering information, such as a newspaper, book, or magazine

Wiktionary Definition for: Atom

  • (''obsolete'') The smallest mediaeval unit of time, equal to fifteen ninety-fourths of a second.
  • (''Historical'') A theoretical particle of matter, imagined to be incapable of further division; the smallest possible unit of substance.
  • physics 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.
  • mathematics A non-zero member of a wikipedia:Boolean algebra Boolean algebra that is not a join of any other elements.
  • The smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit of something.
  • English atom; the smallest particle to retain the properties of the element
  • #(''historical'') atom; the theoretically smallest possible particle

Additional Resources

Take a Quantum Leap
IT'S NOT LIKE JEFF GOLDBLUM in The Fly, but physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md., have demonstrated teleportation by transferring key properties of one atom to another atom without any physical link.
Tags: Quantum Corp.
Research articles 2004-08-01
SHOCKWAVE BUYS WEBCASTER.(Brief Article)
Macromedia's Shockwave.com will acquire indie films Webcaster Atom Films in a stock swap. Atom Films shareholders ... Macromedia's Shockwave.com will acquire indie films Webcaster Atom Films in a stock swap. Atom Films shareholders will get 30% of the company. The Shockwave.com animation/gaming site currently...
Research articles 2000-12-18
RIKEN, NEC, and JST Successfully Demonstrate Laser Emission From Artificial Atom/Superconducting Qubit
Tokyo, Japan, Oct 4, 2007 - JCN Newswire - RIKEN, NEC Corporation, and JST ("Japan Science and Technology Agency") have successfully demonstrated a laser emission from one artificial atom by coupling superconducting quantum bits ("qubits") to a resonator. The lasing effect was achieved by an extremely simple system - a...
Tags: atom, laser, NEC Corp.
Research articles 2007-10-04
Teleportation is a reality.(National Institute of Standards and Technology's research on atom transferring)(Brief Article)
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST have demonstrated "teleportation" by transferring key properties of one atom to another atom without using any physical link. Unlike "beaming" of actual physi Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST have demonstrated...
Tags: atom, NIST
Research articles 2005-09-01
Atomic simulation of cracks shows how nanomaterials fail.(TESTING CHARACTERIZATION)
An atom-by-atom simulation of cracks forming and spreading that may help explain how materials fail in nanoscale devices, airplanes, and even in the Earth itself during a quake has reportedly been developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog An atom-by-atom simulation of cracks forming and spreading...
Tags: crack, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, theory
Research articles 2006-03-01
ADLINK Announces Ultra Low Power COM Express Module Based on Intel® Atom™ Processor
Integration of Intel[R] Atom[TM] Processor Lowers Power Consumption While Enabling New Ultra Mobile, Internet Connected, Battery-Powered Devices for the Embedded Market
Tags: COM, Intel Corp., processor
Research articles 2008-04-03
ASSET® is First to Support Intel®'s New Atom™ Processor with CPU Emulation Test and Diagnostics
mMaster Support for Atom Joins ASSET's ScanWorks[R] Support for Intel([R])'s IBIST Embedded Instrumentation Technology for Design Validation, Test and Debug
Tags: asset, CPU, Intel Corp., processor
Research articles 2008-04-01
IBM Scientists Demonstrate Single-Atom Magnetic Measurements
IBM scientists have measured a fundamental magnetic property of a single atom -- the energy required to flip its magnetic orientation. This is the first result by a promising new technique they developed to study the properties of nanometer-scale magnetic structures that are expected to revolutionize future information technologies.
Tags: IBM Corp.
Research articles 2004-09-09
ELECTRONIC CERAMICS: IBM Demonstrates Single-Atom Measurements.
IBM scientists have measured a fundamental magnetic property of a single atom -- the energy required to flip its magnetic orientation. This is the first result by a promising new technique they developed to study the properties of nanometer-scale ma IBM scientists have measured a...
Tags: IBM Corp.
Research articles 2004-10-01
New artificial atom could be a breakthrough in quantum computing.(News)(Brief Article)
A team of researchers from Yale University has formed an artificial molecule by binding a single photon to a superconducting device. The device, engineered to behave like a single atom, was made using integrated circuit fabrication techniques. It's A team of researchers from Yale...
Tags: atom, integrated circuit, Yale University
Research articles 2004-10-21
ABB ATOM APPOINTS NEW PRESIDENT
Stefan Olsson has been appointed as the new President of ABB ATOM AB. At present, he is the general manager of ABB ATOM's Nuclear Fuel Division. He will assume his new duties as of November 1. Mr Olsson, who has a Master's Degree in engineering, majoriStefan Olsson...
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Research articles 1995-10-06
American Arium Announces Debug Support for New Intel(R) Low Power Platform
American Arium, an industry leader in hardware-assisted development tools, today announced debug support for the Intel® Atom™ processor Z500 series. Arium's hardware-assisted debug solution comes in the form of the company's ECM-XDP3 JTAG emulator and latest SourcePoint™ debug interface. The Intel Atom processor is based on Intel's new 45nm Hi-k...
Tags: Intel Corp.
Research articles 2008-04-02
ANNUAL MEETINGS: UNICOM; STEPAN; MMI; WICKES.
Going fission: More nukes for Unicom? One would think that Unicom Corp. would have had enough of the atom, given that it has spent the last 20 years digging out from its ill-conceived investment in nuclear power. Not so. The...
Tags: annual meeting, company, health care, Unicom
Research articles 1999-06-21
WorldMate Goes Executive on the O2 Xda Atom Exec Throughout Asia Pacific and The Middle East; O2 Asia Pacific Is The Latest Licensee For the World's Most Popular Mobile Travel Utility
LOD, Israel -- MobiMate Ltd. announced today that O2 Asia Pacific has licensed WorldMate 2006 Standard Edition for the new O2 Xda Atom Exec, the company's latest PDA-phone that is shipping throughout Asia Pacific and the Middle East. This is the ninth such agreement MobiMate has signed in 2006, leading...
Tags: mobile, O2 Plc.
Research articles 2006-07-20
Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Atom Egoyan's Film, 'Adoration'
A Modern Drama Of Teens Reimagining Themselves Through The Internet
Tags: Sony Pictures
Research articles 2008-05-07
``Atomic Burrito'' New Name For Western Country Clubs Trading Today With New Nasdaq Symbol: ATOM
OKLAHOMA CITY--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 7, 1999--
Tags: Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.
Research articles 1999-09-07
Hollow gold clusters may make cages for atoms.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
A class of gold atom clusters that are the first known metallic hollow equivalents of the famous hollow carbon fullerenes known as bucky-balls have been reported by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Wash. Car A class of gold atom clusters that are...
Tags: atom, carbon
Research articles 2006-08-01
Viacom focuses on Internet comedy; Aims to monetize video, challenge YouTube with ad-friendly content.(News)
Byline: Abbey Klaassen Viacom is getting serious about its online-video strategy--by betting heavily on comedy. Atom Films, relaunched last week, will be a playground for aspiring video producers hoping for the next big Comedy Central or Spike T Byline: Abbey Klaassen...
Tags: advertisement, Internet, Viacom Inc., video, YouTube Inc.
Research articles 2006-12-11
Direct Marketing; The Modem or the Mailbox?
The buzzwords of online marketing circle our heads like electrons around the nucleus of an atom: "one-to-one relationships," "permission marketing," "mass customization." So how does a company make the transition from The buzzwords of online marketing circle our heads like electrons around...
Tags: company, direct mail, direct marketing, modem, Office Depot Inc., SOHO, Web
Research articles 1999-05-01
Metallic glass is composed of unaligned distorted polyhedra.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
Metallic glass atoms do not arrange themselves in a completely random way, report scientists at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Instead, groups of seven to 15 atoms tend to arrange themselves around a central atom, forming three-dimensional Metallic glass atoms do not arrange themselves in...
Tags: atom, Johns Hopkins University
Research articles 2006-04-01
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