Verb (used without object) : Critics say the group has atomized around several leaders.    From Dictionary.com. 

His studies of locomotion atomise duration into instants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eadweard Muybridge: pioneer photographer] Reference

Man, these people atomise politics to such a fine level that it's completely meaningless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good timing there, JoJo.] Reference

The airless atomising nozzles do not require an external air supply and will atomise with pressures as low as 10lb/in2 (on water).    From Wordnik.com.  [Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news] Reference

He laments the tendency of some anthropologists to "atomise the body", and explain each of its part as an exquisite adaptation to an environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

For better or worse, we know that the Tories supposedly believe that society is broken, even though their solutions would probably atomise it even further.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obsolete] Reference

Also known as smokeless cigs, this is essentially an atomiser that uses a heating element to atomise a flavoured nicotine compound and delivers the heated vapour to the user.    From Wordnik.com.  [bobjots : redux] Reference

He said: 'The way you defeat extremism, intolerance, prejudice and racism is to atomise it and make people feel that even if they think racist thoughts they can't say it openly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

Significantly, they also enable the delivery of formulations which are difficult or impossible to atomise using traditional technologies such as higher viscosity or particle-loaded fluids.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The arrests came after Hong Kong's Department of Health found the devices which atomise nicotine into an aerosol with no burning involved on sale in a shop in the city's Sham Shui Po district.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

When overzealous Reality TV teen superheroes atomise an entire American every-town, cue reactionary goverment enforced registration of all superheroes and split loyalties in the super community.    From Wordnik.com.  [Word Magazine -] Reference

The enemies of public service broadcasting always want to atomise it, to split so-called market failure genres which may deserve public funds from so-called commercial ones which definitely don't.    From Wordnik.com.  [openDemocracy] Reference

Since government likes to see taxation a both stick and carrot to push through social engineering objectives its seems pretty clear that both parties have progressively attacked the family in order to atomise society to make it pliable.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] Reference

But once we atomise the content, what’s the value?.    From Wordnik.com.  [February « 2007 « Innovation Cloud] Reference

According to Cass R Sunstein (thanks for the correct 'exile') one of the problems with internet politics is that it tends to atomise and draw people into informal social networks which then adopt much less moderate politics than they would if they were more directly engaged by mainstream democratic politics … Laurie Penny in the Samoza examines (amongst things) the importance of moderation in keeping a civil peace between those who profoundly disagree on their core political values.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slugger O'Toole] Reference