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ˈatomized, ppl. a.
[for anatomized; cf. atomy1.]
†1. Existing as a skeleton. Obs. rare—1.
1633F. Greville Hum. Learn. cxx, Whereby their abstract formes yet atomis'd May be embodied.
2. Reduced to a fine spray; also, (of a solid) reduced to minute particles.
1865Morell Mackenzie in Lancet 25 Feb. 202/2 (heading) On the treatment of chronic disease of the lungs by the inhalation of atomised liquids. 1870T. Holmes Syst. Surg. (ed. 2) IV. 530 The inhalation of ‘atomised fluids’, or spray. 1926Punch 26 May p. ix (Advt.), An electro⁓vaporiser secures a perfectly atomised gas for starting. 1958Gloss. Terms Powders (B.S.I.) 5 Atomized powder, (a) powder produced by the dispersion of molten metal or other material by spraying under conditions such that the material breaks down to powder, (b) powder produced by disintegration of a material through internal rupture caused by rapid change of external pressure.
3. Damaged or destroyed by an atomic weapon. colloq.
1950G. Greene Third Man x. 95 Tainted, like the soil of an atomised town.
4. transf. Disunited, dissociated; having lost social unity.
1942J. S. Huxley in Polit. Q. XIII. 387 A dingy, discontented, and atomized black proletariat. 1945Koestler Yogi & Commissar iii. iii. 215 Europe east of the Alps is atomized and in a state of political, economical, ideological chaos. 1949I. Deutscher Stalin iv. 98 But the atomized mass of Moslem labourers did not lend itself easily to propaganda or organization. |