nanometre
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See also: nanomètre and nano-metre
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[edit]nanometre (plural nanometres)
- An SI subunit of length equal to 10-9 metres. Symbol: nm
- 2010 September 2, Thomas Barfield, “Get ready for a world of nanotechnology”, in The Guardian[1]:
- A nanometre is one billionth of a metre. A single atom is between a tenth to half a nanometre across; a million or more of them stacked on top of one another would equal the thickness of a piece of paper.
- 2024 November 25, Ellen Phiddian, “There's nanna's pasta, and then there's nanopasta”, in Cosmos[2], Adelaide, S.A.: CSIRO Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-11-25:
- The resulting nanopasta is 372 nanometres thick, or about the same size as a measles virus.
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[edit]subunit of length
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Further reading
[edit]- “nanometre”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu