Wiktionary
n. Any tool having dimensions measured in nanometres, or used in nanotechnology
Usage examples of "nanotool".
In her symbiont, the bacteria lived in the Martian soil, and the virus lived on the bacteria, and while so doing, each manufactured and operated nanotools to accomplish its task.
A few changes would allow her virus nanotool users and their hosts to live in the aliens themselves.
In some specialized cases where this was not feasible, the nanotools themselves might be designed so that they could shut the genano virus down when necessary.
After one hundred days of activity, the bugs would start manufacturing nanotools that wouldn't quite fit the bill for their task, and this would also lead to a failure to make food for the bacteria upon which the virus depended, and the process would grind to a halt.
They won't be able to manufacture their nanotools anymore," she answered.
It says it can design nanotools to fight cancer, grow genetically altered crops to feed the starving, manipulate the weather.