Atomicity may refer to:
Chemistry
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Atomicity (chemistry)
Atomicity is the total number of atoms present in a molecule of an element. For example, each molecule of oxygen (O2) is composed of two oxygen atoms. Therefore, the atomicity of oxygen is 2.
In older contexts, atomicity is sometimes equivalent t ...
, the total number of atoms present in 1 molecule of a substance
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Valence (chemistry)
In chemistry, the valence (US spelling) or valency (British spelling) of an atom is a measure of its combining capacity with other atoms when it forms chemical compounds or molecules. Valence is generally understood to be the number of chemica ...
, sometimes referred to as atomicity
Computing
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Atomicity (database systems), a property of database transactions which are guaranteed to either completely occur, or have no effects
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Atomicity (programming), an operation appears to occur at a single instant between its invocation and its response
* Atomicity, a property of an
S-expression, in a symbolic language like Lisp
Mathematics
* Atomicity, an element of
orthogonality in a component-based system
* Atomicity, in order theory; see
Atom (order theory)
See also
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Atom (disambiguation)
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