Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The science and technology of building devices, such as electronic circuits, from single atoms and molecules.
Wiktionary
- n. the science and technology of creating nanoparticles and of manufacturing machines which have sizes within the range of nanometres
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The manipulation or construction of objects with sizes in the nanometer range or smaller.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the branch of engineering that deals with things smaller than 100 nanometers (especially with the manipulation of individual molecules)
Etymologies
- From nano- + technology. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And the term "nanotechnology" is broad and encompasses many different techniques and ambitions, which, some on the panel argued, make generalisation, for good or bad, unhelpful.”
“The innovation within nanotechnology is what has allowed the nanoantennas to be efficiently embedded to absorb energy in a flexible and inexpensive material.”
“A recent survey conducted by members of the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School found that eight out of ten Americans have no clear understanding of the term nanotechnology - however, nine out of ten hold an opinion about its benefits and risks.”
“All the advice I get," Willets said, "is that behind the word 'nanotechnology' there is a range of nanotechnologies, with different risks and in different sectors, which do not require an equal level of regulation.”
“They were right about the quarks, so maybe nanotechnology is the next great thing: maybe we should all shrink down to being only .000001 millimetres tall and thereby conserve natural resources?”
“[The Harrit study] “provides provides indisputable evidence that a highly engineered explosive called nano-thermite was found in the dust of all three buildings that came down on 9/11 2001 in New York city. [sic] This advanced explosive incorporating nanotechnology is only available to sophisticated military labs.””
“My gut answer to your question is no it's not possible to identify them, not in nanotechnology or elsewhere.”
Nanotech Research Funding, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“All nanotechnology is good for is a plot line in science fiction stories.”
Economics of Nanotechnology, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Is Federal funding for research in nanotechnology justified?”
Nanotech Research Funding, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nanotechnology’.
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science fact or fiction
pretty open-ended here—terms, ideas, lingo, technologies and phenomena (real or postulated) that are, were, should be or could be used in speculative fiction
tachyon, mecha, dropship, wetware, meatspace, nanobot, cloned meat, asteroid mining, hyperdrive, wormhole, parallel universe, distributed intel... and 464 more...
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nano-
very small; denoting a factor of 10-9
nanoplankton, nanosecond, nanotechnology, nanofossil, nanocosm, nanoarray, nanoage, nanoassembly, nanobacteria, nanobiologist, nanocapsule, nanocube and 10 more...
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solutions
one word (preferably / not a must). terms that solved, help solve or theoretically will solve the world's problems (past, present, future).
these can be general, umbrella terms or...veganism, neurotechnology, biotechnology, nanotechnology, globalism, sustainability, laws, ecology, education, immunization, switchgrass, Esperanto and 72 more...
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Criswell Predicts
Words describing a future that may or may not be entirely grounded in reality. Not to be used for predictive purposes. I do not have the gift of premonition. In fact, all these ideas come from popu...
flying car, space tourism, big brother, soylent green, brave new world, first contact, domestic android, skynet, new world order, collectivism, world peace, laser pistol and 93 more...
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Transhumanity
Cribbed from Transhumanist Terminology at aleph.se, which has definitions, and is itself based on the Lextropicon.
adhocracy, aeonomics, a-life, agoric system, ai, ai-complete, aleph, algernon, amortalist, arachniography, arch-anarchy, arcology and 333 more...
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vinyl's Words
deliverator, finna, metric fuckton, fag, hyphy, ginormous, sacrilicious, fantabulous, macaca, n-word, pterodactyl, genious and 560 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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Samme's Words
soliloquy, meander, creativity, magic, discovery, happiness, empowerment, abundance, [magnificent], iridescent, artistic, magical and 694 more...
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Jigsaw Codex
List? What list?
This is the list that makes up the world.cat, boustrophedon, syndetic, life, imbroglio, interlude, composition, investigation, cantankerous, him, sign, universality and 189 more...
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Nanoscale
nanohole, nanoform, nanofluidics, nanofoam, nanofluid, nanoflow, nanoflake, nanofiber, claytronics, nanodust, buckypaper, nanodisk and 154 more...
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nuwerdna's Words
smegma, defenestration, nubile, zeitgeist, stochastic, ergodic, stability, maudlin, recursion, aversion, agent, set and 239 more...
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ologies
technology, acarology, aceology, acology, adenology, aedoeology, aerobiology, aerolithology, aerology, agriology, agrobiology, agrology and 850 more...
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Industrial
electrodeposition, photovoltaic, superconductivity, photoelectrochemical, gearhead, pig iron, cogeneration, capacitor, blast furnace slag, coaxial, daisy chaining, commutator and 93 more...
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100 Words Everyone Should Know, Accor...
this list appeared in many American newspapers in the fall of 2002.
abjure, abrogate, abstemious, acumen, antebellum, auspicious, belie, bellicose, bowdlerize, chicanery, chromosome, churlish and 88 more...
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favorite things
these are a few of my favorite things.
( randomness, personal list, _mark)mad science, nanotechnology, dreaming, storytelling, biotechnology, biochemistry, cybernetics, horror, mythology, life forms, art, emotion and 19 more...
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100 Words That All High School Gradua...
reference
abjure, abrogate, abstemious, acumen, antebellum, auspicious, belie, bellicose, bowdlerize, chicanery, chromosome, churlish and 88 more...
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