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    An operation during which a processor can simultaneously read a location and write it in the same bus operation. This prevents any other processor or I/O device from writing or reading memory until the operation is complete.

    Atomic implies indivisibility and irreducibility, so an atomic operation must be performed entirely or not performed at all.

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