angstrom

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  1. noun A unit of length equal to one hundred-millionth (10-8) of a centimeter, used especially to specify radiation wavelengths. Also called angstrom unit. See Table at measurement.

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  • "Nobody can sit there with tweezers a couple hundred angstroms wide"--one angstrom is one ten-billionth of a yard--"and put particles down one by one in exactly the same way." —  Omni: October 1994
  • I could not, God help me, but wrangle and wrought with your angstrom thin sense of self-righteous grievance. —  newmatilda.com - Comments
  • SPM mode provides a choice of high resolution scanners for sub-angstrom imaging, as well as closed loop scanners for precise metrology. —  physicsworld.com: all content
  • Here we report the 3.3 angstrom resolution structure of a member of this superfamily, GlpT, which transports glycerol-3-phosphate into the cytoplasm and inorganic phosphate into the periplasm. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Hailed as the world's most powerful transmission electron microscope, TEAM 0.5 at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has clinched another world first - resolving matter to less than half an angstrom with high contrast. —  physicsworld.com: all content
 

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