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Definition of Atomise

1. Verb. Spray very finely. "Atomize perfume"

2. Verb. Strike at with firepower or bombs. "Zap the enemy"

3. Verb. Break up into small particles. "The fine powder had been atomized by air"

Definition of Atomise

1. Verb. (alternative spelling of atomize) ¹

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Definition of Atomise

1. to atomize [v -ISED, -ISING, -ISES] - See also: atomize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Atomise

atomic wedgie atomic weight atomic weights atomic winter atomic winters atomical atomically atomician atomicians atomicism

atomicities atomicity atomics atomies atomisation atomise (current term) atomised atomiser atomisers atomises

atomising atomism atomisms atomist atomist theory atomistic atomistic psychology atomistic theory atomistical atomistically

Literary usage of Atomise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Oil Fuel: Its Supply, Composition, and Application by Sydney H. North (1905)
"It may be affirmed that the efficiency of the burner is simply proportionate to its power to atomise the oil and then to turn these minute particles of oil ..."

2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"Its employment as fuel is being very rapidly developed, chiefly in burners which serve to atomise the liquid, either by direct application of pressure, ..."

3. Restituta: Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"But that a Sun to us did rise Our fathers' hoary sin to atomise: And when the flowers display'd appear, To entertain the mounting ..."

4. Continuity: The Presidential Address to the British Association for 1913 by Oliver Lodge (1914)
"The irresistible impulse to atomise everything thus proves to be not merely a disease of the physicist: a deeper origin, in the nature of knowledge itself, ..."

5. Continuity: The Presidential Address to the British Association for 1913 by Oliver Lodge (1914)
"The irresistible impulse to atomise everything thus proves to be not merely a disease of the physicist: a deeper origin, in the nature of knowledge itself, ..."

6. The Book of prescriptions: Containing Upwards of 3000 Prescriptions by Henry Beasley (1883)
"1 9, atomise, gr. }. Gire a grain and a half, two or three times a day, to a child of five years. In Hooping-cough. ..."

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