Definitions
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- noun An
SI subunit of length equal to 10-9metres . Symbol:nm
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter
Etymologies
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Examples
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A nanometre is one millionth of a millimetre and corresponds to only a few layers of atoms.
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A nanometre is one millionth of a millimetre. photo: © IBM
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One nanometre is about a million times smaller than the size of a pinhead.
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The crucial trick is that although both the electrodes and the electrolyte appear solid, they are actually finely structured at the nanometre scale a nanometre is a billionth of a metre.
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A nanometre is a billionth of a meter, about the size of a few atoms combined.
PC Advisor News 2010
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A nanometre is a billionth of a meter, about the size of a few atoms combined.
PC Advisor News 2010
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A nanometre is a billionth of a meter, about the size of a few atoms combined.
PC Advisor News 2010
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A nanometre is a billionth of a meter, about the size of a few atoms combined.
PC Advisor News 2010
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Their wings contain small projections, spaced about 200 nanometres a nanometre is equivalent to one billionth of a metre apart, which allow 98% of light to pass through them.
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He's very clearly reading it off his autocue, which is forgivable, but he isn't putting a lot of life into it. 32 nanometre technology!
CES 2012: Intel keynote from Otellini brings Atom to smartphones 2012
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