nanometre

See also: nanomètre and nano-metre

English

Etymology

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Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos)bor.

Latin nānusbor.

English nano-

English metre

English nanometre

From nano- + metre.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnænə(ʊ)ˌmiːtə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnænoʊˌmitər/
• Rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: na‧no‧me‧tre

Noun

nanometre (plural nanometres)

2. An SI subunit of length equal to 10^-9 metres.

   Alternative forms: nm (symbol), nanometer (US)

   Holonyms: micrometre < millimetre < centimetre < decimetre < metre < kilometre < megametre < gigametre < terametre < petametre

   Meronym: picometre

   • 2010 September 2, Thomas Barfield, “Get ready for a world of nanotechnology”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     A nanometre is one billionth of a metre. A single atom is between a tenth to half a nanometre across; a million or more of them stacked on top of one another would equal the thickness of a piece of paper.

   • 2024 November 25, Ellen Phiddian, “There's nanna's pasta, and then there's nanopasta”, in Cosmos‎^[2], Adelaide, S.A.: CSIRO Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 November 2024:

     The resulting nanopasta is 372 nanometres thick, or about the same size as a measles virus.

Derived terms

• subnanometre

Translations

subunit of length

• Catalan: nanòmetre
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 納米 / 纳米 (naap⁶ mai⁵)

  Hakka: 奈米 (nái-mì)

  Mandarin: 納米 / 纳米 (zh) (nàmǐ), 奈米 (zh) (nàimǐ) (Taiwan)

• Czech: nanometr (cs) m
• Dutch: nanometer (nl)
• Esperanto: nanometro
• Finnish: nanometri (fi)
• French: nanomètre (fr)
• Georgian: ნანომეტრი (nanomeṭri)
• German: Nanometer (de) m
• Hungarian: nanométer (hu)
• Icelandic: nanómetri m
• Italian: nanometro (it) m
• Japanese: ナノメートル (ja) (nanomētoru)
• Khmer: រស្សមាត្រ (ras sak mart), ណាណូម៉ែត្រ (na no maet)
• Lao: ນາໂນແມັດ (lo) (nā nō mæt), ນາໂນເມັດ (nā nō met)
• Latvian: nanometrs
• Polish: nanometr (pl) m
• Portuguese: nanômetro m (Brazil), nanómetro m (Portugal)
• Romanian: nanometru m
• Russian: наноме́тр (ru) m (nanométr)
• Slovak: nanometer m
• Spanish: nanómetro (es) m
• Swedish: nanometer (sv) c
• Tagalog: nanometro
• Thai: นาโนเมตร
• Turkish: nanometre (tr)
• Vietnamese: nanômét (vi)

Anagrams

• nanometer

Turkish

Etymology

From nano- +‎ metre.

Noun

nanometre

1. nanometre, nanometer

Further reading

• “nanometre”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu