nanometre

See also: nanomètre and nano-metre

English

Alternative forms

• nanometer (US)

Etymology

From nano- +‎ metre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnænəˌmiːtə(ɹ)/

Noun

nanometre (plural nanometres)

1. An SI subunit of length equal to 10^-9 metres. Symbol: nm
   • 2012 January, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 14 November 2012, page 23:

     We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.

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)
• 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

nano- +‎ metre

Noun

nanometre

1. nanometre, nanometer

Further reading

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