Atomic : Java Glossary
Acronym ACID includes four properties guaranteed by
transactions: atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability.
Atomic is one of the four properties defined in acronym that
defines that a transaction must execute completely or not at all. This means
atomicity guarantees that the operations with in a transaction work on the
all-or-nothing paradigm means either all the database updates are performed, or
nothing happens whenever an error occurs.