picotech

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picotech (uncountable)

  1. Abbreviation of picotechnology.
    • 1993 December 2, Hugo de Garis, “Picotech? Femtotech?”, in sci.nanotech[1] (Usenet):
      This email challenges readers to consider the possibility of a picotech, or even a femtotech. Presumably a picotech would be of the scale of a nucleus (a hydrogen atom is about 0.1 nmeter, a proton is about 0.1 pmeter), and a femtotech would be into quark territory.
    • 2015, Neil Asher, Dark Intelligence: Transformation, Book One[2], →ISBN, page 120:
      [This object] is in either an active or pre-active state, like the bots aboard this ship, and scanning reveals quantum computing and picotech processes.