English
superatom
From super- + atom.
Proto-Indo-European *temh₁- ‘to cut’
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Ancient Greek ἄτομος ‘indivisible’
Latin atomus ‘smallest particle’
Middle French athome
Middle English attome
English atom
Today it means
noun A metamaterial, a cluster of atoms which acts like a single atom. It seems to exhibit some of the properties of elemental atoms.
Sources
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