atomicfunction
nounUK /əˈtɒmɪk ˈfʌŋkʃən/
US /əˈtɑːmɪk ˈfʌŋkʃən/
A tiny job that a computer does all at once without stopping.
The program uses an atomicfunction to save the file safely.
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2. A function in programming that finishes completely or not at all, with no half-done state.
Engineers wrapped the update in an atomicfunction so a crash could not corrupt the data.
3. A basic building block operation in a system that cannot be split into smaller steps.
Each atomicfunction in the scheduler runs without interruption.
4. In chemistry-inspired computing models, a function that treats a group of changes as one single unit.
The database engine calls an atomicfunction to commit all rows together.