Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
(chemistry) any theory in which all matter is composed of tiny discrete finite indivisible indestructible particles;
- Example: "the ancient Greek philosophers Democritus and Epicurus held atomic theories of the universe"[syn: atomism, atomic theory, atomist theory, atomistic theory]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
atomistic theory
n 1: (chemistry) any theory in which all matter is composed of
tiny discrete finite indivisible indestructible particles;
"the ancient Greek philosophers Democritus and Epicurus
held atomic theories of the universe" [syn: atomism,
atomic theory, atomist theory, atomistic theory]
[ant: holism, holistic theory]