picotech

English

Noun

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.