Atomos

Just as for Democritus the term atomos does not mean exclusively indivisible, but is also a technical term for smallest particles, so also something similar seems to be the case with the word elachista. ❋ A. G. M. VAN MELSEN (1968)

Although the Greek term atomos is most commonly associated with the philosophical system developed by Leucippus and Democritus, involving solid and impenetrable bodies, Plato's Timaeus presents a different kind of physical theory based on indivisibles. ❋ Berryman, Sylvia (2005)

In medieval times the atomos was the shortest possible unit of time. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Pledging allegiance to a piece of cloth manufactured in Asia has all kinds of implications I'd rather not discuss with rational adults, never mind bouncy human larvae, so I simply recite the pledge occasionally substituting the word "atomos" for "indivisible", and ask that the kids be respectful during this time given that our soldiers are dying overseas. ❋ Doyle (2008)

They are not so continual, as divers, felicius atomos denumerare possem, saith [1805] Bernard, quam motus cordis; nunc haec, nunc illa cogito, you may as well reckon up the motes in the sun as them. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Since the Greek adjective atomos means, literally, ❋ Berryman, Sylvia (2005)

Hoc, fiquidem fbli obverteris, aut oblique afpe - xeris, vel denique raicrofcopio examinaveris, atomos teflulasque planes, minu - tiflfimas, vereque microfcopicas, quadrilateras, facheri ad inilar micantes. plum* bi fpatofi citrini efle dcteges. ❋ JOSEPHUS EYEREL (1791)

[miss] krailey, why did they [change] atomos to [atoms]? ❋ Sifo-Dyas (2004)

-Wow! [Richard] is such an [Axrhsto Atomo]! -Let's [castrate] him publicly! ❋ Xrhsimo Atomo (2021)