atomist
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈætəmɪst/
Noun
atomist (plural atomists)
- An adherent of atomism; one who believes matter is composed of elementary indivisible particles.
- 2002, Phillip Ball, The Elements: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2004, p. 9:
- What distinguished the atomists from their opponents was not the belief in tiny particles that make up matter, but the question of what separated them.
- 2002, Phillip Ball, The Elements: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2004, p. 9:
- An adherent of the atomic theory.
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