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Rupture vs Atomize - What's the difference?

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Rupture is a related term of atomize.


As verbs the difference between rupture and atomize

is that rupture is (intransitive) to burst, break through, or split, as under pressure while atomize is to separate or reduce into atoms.

As a noun rupture

is a burst, split, or break.

rupture

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A burst, split, or break.
  • * Milton
  • Hatch from the egg, that soon, / Bursting with kindly rupture , forth disclosed / Their callow young.
  • A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
  • * E. Everett
  • He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.
  • (medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
  • (engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
  • Verb

    (ruptur)
  • (intransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.
  • See also

    *

    atomize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * atomise

    Verb

  • to separate or reduce into atoms
  • to make into a fine spray
  • to fragment, break into small pieces or concepts
  • to bomb with nuclear weapons