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–noun

1.	a book, esp. a very heavy, large, or learned book.

2.	a volume forming a part of a larger work.

[Origin: 1510–20; < F < L tomus < Gk tómos slice, piece, roll of paper, book, akin to témnein to cut

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n.

One of the books in a work of several volumes.
A book, especially a large or scholarly one.

[French, from Latin tomus, from Greek tomos, a cutting, section, from temnein, to cut; see tem- in Indo-European roots.]

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1519, from M.Fr. tome, from L. tomus "section of a book, tome," from Gk. tomos "volume, section of a book," originally "section, piece cut off," from temein "to cut," from PIE *tom-/*tem- "to cut" (cf. second element in L. aestimare "to value, appraise," O.C.S. tina "to cleave, split," M.Ir. tamnaim "I cut off," Welsh tam "morsel"). Originally "a single volume of a multi-volume work;" sense of "a large book" is attested from 1573.

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tome
noun
a (usually) large and scholarly book

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Tome-Adelino, NM (CDP, FIPS 78685) Location: 34.73145 N, 106.72066 W
Population (1990): 1695 (615 housing units)
Area: 16.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

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At"om\, n. [L. atomus, Gr. ?, uncut, indivisible; 'a priv. + ?, verbal adj. of ? to cut: cf. F. atome. See Tome.]

1. (Physics) (a) An ultimate indivisible particle of matter. (b) An ultimate particle of matter not necessarily indivisible; a molecule. (c) A constituent particle of matter, or a molecule supposed to be made up of subordinate particles.

Note: These three definitions correspond to different views of the nature of the ultimate particles of matter. In the case of the last two, the particles are more correctly called molecules. --Dana.

2. (Chem.) The smallest particle of matter that can enter into combination; one of the elementary constituents of a molecule.

3. Anything extremely small; a particle; a whit.

There was not an atom of water. --Sir J. Ross.

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