Meaning & use
Atomicity
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The property of an operation or unit of matter being indivisible or completed entirely as a single, uninterruptible step.
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The database guarantees atomicity, so a transaction either completes fully or not at all.
In chemistry, atomicity refers to the number of atoms in a molecule of an element.
A note on using this word
The term is one of the four "ACID" properties (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) central to reliable database transactions.
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2. noun
The number of atoms present in one molecule of an element.
Oxygen gas has an atomicity of two, since each molecule contains two atoms.
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