What is anything extremely small; a particle; a whit. There was not an atom of water. Sir J. Ross called?
atom — Anything extremely small; a particle; a whit. There was not an atom of water. Sir J. Ross. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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