angstrom

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From the name of the Swedish physicist Anders Jonas Ångström.

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angstrom (plural angstroms)

1. (physics) A very small unit of length, 10^-10 m, approximately the size of an atom, used especially to measure the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation or distances between atoms. Abbreviated Å

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