Both Uses of
atom
in
The Age of Innocence
- But you couldn't make a man like Winsett see that; and that was why the New York of literary clubs and exotic restaurants, though a first shake made it seem more of a kaleidoscope, turned out, in the end, to be a smaller box, with a more monotonous pattern, than the assembled atoms of Fifth Avenue.†
Chpt 14
- And of what account was anybody's past, in the huge kaleidoscope where all the social atoms spun around on the same plane?†
Chpt 34 *
Definition:
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(atom) the smallest part of any material that cannot be broken up by chemical means; comprised of a nucleus of protons and neutrons surrounded by orbiting electrons