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A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter
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nanometer
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter [syn: nanometre , nm , millimicron , micromillimeter , micromillimetre ]
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n. (alternative spelling of nanometre from=US English)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also nanometre , 1963, from nano- + meter (n.2).
Usage examples of nanometer.
We are working here on objects that are millionths of a millimeter in size, that is, nanometers, which is comparable to the size of individual atoms.
It is the quest to build man-made machinery of extremely small size, on the order of 100 nanometers, or a hundred billionths of a meter.
For example, by identifying the causal role of photon emissions of 600 nanometers in producing the experience of red, scientists have commonly reduced red to such photon emissions.
A billion-ton kernel had an event horizon only a few billionths of a nanometer across.
The microtubules’ structure consisted of hollow tubes made of thirteen columns of tubulin dimers, peanut-shaped globular protein pairs, each about eight-by-four-by-four nanometers, existing in two different configurations, depending on their electrical polarization.
The microtubules' structure consisted of hollow tubes made of thirteen columns of tubulin dimers, peanut-shaped globular protein pairs, each about eight-by-four-by-four nanometers, existing in two different configurations, depending on their electrical polarization.
The inner layer was lined by carbon nanotubes only a nanometer wide, rolled up sheets of graphite with a tensile strength greater than steel.
The inner layer was lined by carbon nanotubes only a nanometer wide, rolled-up sheets of graphite with a tensile strength greater than steel.
He's tryin' to jury-rig the electron microscope to get nanometer resolution.
The exobiologists at Johnson Space Center were making their initial report: the Martian bacteria were around one hundred nanometers long, bigger than the fossil nanobacteria tentatively identified in ALH 84001, but smaller than most Terran bacteria.
That was when I got serious about my research, and found out about the Sedge Grass Support Group, and learned from them that fragments of the rhizomes only five hundred nanometers long had been observed to regenerate the full plant in a single growing season.