What does nonatomic mean?
Not atomic; not composed of atoms. In computer science, a property of a thread-safe operation that does not use locks or other synchronization primitives to protect access to shared data.
Example
"The nonatomic property of the operation ensured that it could be executed concurrently without causing any issues."
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