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In Greek, 'tom' means 'to cut'. Hence tomography, and even tome as in a bound book.

The Greeks considered that there must have been a particle which could not be made smaller, hence 'atom' = not cut.

The prefix a in Greek essentially means not or without. Hence amoral, achromatic, aspheric, etc.

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An antom is a word or words that mean completely different things for example dreadful and fantastic.

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An atom? Why?

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