interatom

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adjective

Occurring between atoms.

OriginEnglish atom ← Latin inter- ← Proto-Italic *n̥ter →
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Meanings

adjectiveinteratom (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOccurring between atoms.

    The two photons from the two atoms are jointly measured with a beam splitter, which mixes the two input photons, and the atom-photon entanglement is transferred to interatom entanglement, which is the entanglement swap.

    2009 January 23, M. S. Kim, Jaeyoon Cho, “PHYSICS: Teleporting a Quantum State to Distant Matter”, in Science, volume 323, number 5913, →DOI

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁n̥tér
  3. Proto-Italic*n̥ter
  4. Latininter
  5. Latininter-
  6. Englishinter-
  7. Englishatom
  8. Englishinteratom

From inter- + atom.

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APA

interatom. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interatom

MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “interatom,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interatom.

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