Definitions
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- noun US spelling of
femtometre : A length of 10-15 of a meter, 1quadrillionth of a meter.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter
Etymologies
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Examples
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Femto-neutrons or 'femtons' are fast neutrons of femtometer wavelength, a million times shorter than the current nanotechnology diagnostic probes which operate on nanometer scale.
Nano Tech Wire 2010
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Femto-neutrons or 'femtons' are fast neutrons of femtometer wavelength, a million times shorter than the current nanotechnology diagnostic probes which operate on nanometer scale.
Nano Tech Wire 2010
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Femto-neutrons or 'femtons' are fast neutrons of femtometer wavelength, a million times shorter than the current nanotechnology diagnostic probes which operate on nanometer scale.
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I'm sure that there's a reason you started to ask about making some kind of measurement at the 100 femtometer level but for now you've just baffled me.
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Femto-neutrons or 'femtons' are fast neutrons of femtometer wavelength, a million times shorter than the current nanotechnology diagnostic probes which operate on nanometer scale.
Nano Tech Wire 2010
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Femto-neutrons or 'femtons' are fast neutrons of femtometer wavelength, a million times shorter than the current nanotechnology diagnostic probes which operate on nanometer scale.
Nano Tech Wire 2010
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The first unit to go into the field, pictured below, "can detect a 10 femtometer change in the position of its center chip.
All DN headlines 2009
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