All 3 Uses of
atom
in
Jane Eyre
- But I tell you — and you may mark my words — you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life's stream will be broken up into whirl and tumult, foam and noise: either you will be dashed to atoms on crag points, or lifted up and borne on by some master-wave into a calmer current — as I am now.†
p. 167.1atoms = the smallest parts of any material that cannot be broken up by chemical means
- Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.†
p. 347.8 *atom = the smallest part of any material that cannot be broken up by chemical means
- I had a belief she loved me even when she left me: that was an atom of sweet in much bitter.†
p. 511.3
Definition:
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