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atomization|ˌætəmaɪˈzeɪʃən|
[n. of action f. atomize: see -ation.]
1. The process of reducing to very minute particles, spec. in Med. of reducing liquids to a fine spray.
1866H. Beigel On Inhalation v. 49 The minuteness of atomization. 1871G. H. Napheys Prev. & Cure Dis. iii. iv. 688 This method is called the atomization of fluids. 1875H. Wood Therap. (1879) 522 The use of drugs by atomization..A solution of the medicine is broken up by a mechanical contrivance into a fine spray and projected into the back of the mouth.
2. transf. The process of reducing or dividing into small units; fragmentation.
1935Archit. Rev. LXXVIII. 86/2 The characteristically capitalist atomization of society into isolated economic units. 1953A. K. C. Ottaway Educ. & Soc. v. 98 The break-down or ‘atomization’ of the process into one operation per worker leads to a lack of interest. 1954Koestler Invis. Writing xxii. 244 There are various answers to this—atomisation, dispersion, the sorry end of all independent Communist splinter-groups. |