nanometre
IPA: nˈænoʊmitɝ
noun
- An SI subunit of length equal to 10⁻⁹ metres. Symbol: nm
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Examples of "nanometre" in Sentences
- A nanometre is one millionth of a millimetre. photo: © IBM
- In colorimetry it has an absorption maximum of 387 nanometre.
- For consistency, this article should be moved to 90 nanometre.
- FYI, Nm in aviation generally means nautical mile, not nanometre.
- There is also a reference to nanometre thickness on the same page.
- A nanofluid is a suspension of nanometre size particles in a liquid.
- The nominal pore size of the membrane is typically about 1 nanometre.
- Otherwise it may be confused with nm for nanometre or mN for millinewton.
- One nanometre is about a million times smaller than the size of a pinhead.
- A nanometre is a billionth of a meter, about the size of a few atoms combined.
- My main objective from the beginning was to avoid the clash with the nanometre.
- It is an alternating pattern of dark and light bands measuring each 1 nanometre.
- A nanometre is one millionth of a millimetre and corresponds to only a few layers of atoms.
- He's very clearly reading it off his autocue, which is forgivable, but he isn't putting a lot of life into it. 32 nanometre technology!
- Their wings contain small projections, spaced about 200 nanometres a nanometre is equivalent to one billionth of a metre apart, which allow 98% of light to pass through them.
- The crucial trick is that although both the electrodes and the electrolyte appear solid, they are actually finely structured at the nanometre scale a nanometre is a billionth of a metre.