1. not relating to or involving atoms or atomic structure
Usage: technical
2. in computing, describing an operation that cannot be interrupted or divided into smaller parts
Usage: computing; technical

Examples

• The nonatomic properties of the material made it unsuitable for nuclear research.
• Nonatomic operations in programming can lead to race conditions.
• The database uses nonatomic transactions for better performance.
• Scientists studied the nonatomic behavior of the compound.
• The nonatomic nature of the process caused synchronization issues.
• Nonatomic variables require careful handling in multithreaded applications.