angstrom

See also: Appendix:Variations of "angstrom"

English

Alternative forms

• Angstrom
• angström
• ångstrom
• ångström

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish ångström, named after Swedish physicist Anders Jonas Ångström.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæŋstɹəm/, /ˈæŋstɹʌm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæŋstɹəm/, /ˈæŋstɹʌm/, /ˈɔŋstɹəm/
• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈæŋstɹʌm/
• Hyphenation: ang‧strom

Noun

angstrom (plural angstroms)

1. (physics, metrology) A unit of length equal to 10⁻¹⁰ meters (that is, one ten-billionth of a meter), approximately the size of an atom, and denoted by the symbol Å, used especially to measure the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation or distances between atoms.

Synonyms

• Å
• angstrom unit
• AU
• ㍳

Coordinate terms

• micron (μ)

Derived terms

• angstrom star
• microangstrom
• milliangstrom
• subangstrom

Translations

a very small unit of length, 10⁻¹⁰ m

• Arabic: أَنْغْسْتْرُوم m (ʔanḡstrūm), أَنْجْسْتْرُوم m (ʔangstrūm)
• Armenian: անգստրոմ (angstrom)
• Bulgarian: а́нгстрьом m (ángstrjom)
• Catalan: àngstrom (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 埃格斯特朗 (zh) (āigésītèlǎng), 埃斯特朗 (zh) (āisītèlǎng), 埃米 (āimǐ), 埃 (zh) (āi)

• Danish: ångstrøm c
• Dutch: ångström (nl)
• Esperanto: angstromo
• Finnish: ångström (fi)
• French: ångström (fr) m, angström (fr) m, aangström m
• German: Ångström (de) n, Angström n
• Greek: άνγκστρομ n (ángkstrom)
• Hebrew: אנגסטרום (he)
• Hungarian: ångström (hu)
• Indonesian: angstrom
• Irish: angstram m, aonad Angstrom m
• Japanese: オングストローム (ja) (ongusutorōmu)
• Khmer: អង់ស្ត្រុម (ʼɑngstrom)
• Korean: 옹스트롬 (ongseuteurom)
• Malay: angstrom
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ångstrøm m

  Nynorsk: ångstrøm m

• Polish: angstrem (pl) m
• Portuguese: angstrom (pt) m
• Russian: а́нгстрем (ru) m (ángstrɛm)
• Slovak: ångström m
• Spanish: ángstrom m
• Swedish: ångström (sv)
• Thai: อังสตรอม (th)
• Turkish: ångström (tr)

References

• “angstrom”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Indonesian

Etymology

Internationalism. Borrowed from Swedish ångström, named after Swedish physicist Anders Jonas Ångström.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈaŋstrom/ [ˈaŋs.t̪rɔm]
• Rhymes: -aŋstrom
• Syllabification: angs‧trom

Noun

angstrom (uncountable)

1. (physics, metrology) angstrom

Alternative forms

• Å

Further reading

• “angstrom”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
• Mien Achmad Rifai; Nawangsari Sugiri; Sumitro Sunitiyono (1990), Kamus Biologi: Fisiologi [Dictionary of Biology: Physiology] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, page 8

Portuguese

Noun

angstrom m (plural angstroms)

1. (physics) angstrom (a very small unit of length, 10^-10 m)

Further reading

• “angstrom”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “angstrom”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026