Atomicity

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Atomicity may refer to:

• A synonym for valence.
• Atomicity, an element of orthogonality in a component-based system
• Atomicity in order theory: see Atom (order theory)
• In chemistry, atomicity is the total number of atoms present in 1 molecule of a substance

In computing:

• Atomicity (database systems), a property of database transactions which are guaranteed to either completely occur, or have no effects.
• Atomicity (programming), in computer science, especially parallel algorithms, 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, to describe whether an expression is made of atoms (numbers or symbols) or is a list of S-expressions

See also

• Atom (disambiguation)

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