Nanometer

Definitions

US spelling of nanometre.

US, alt-of

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Images also indicated that gel porosity was in the nanometer range, similar to previously characterized hyperporous beads generated using the same sol-gel methods, which limits mobility of encapsulated cells (Fig 2B ) [23 ].”

“It is noteworthy that biological phenomena occur⟳ at scales ranging from nanometers to megameters, and from nanoseconds to gigaannums.”

“The newest form⟳ of gold created in a lab is the thickness of two atoms, according to a new study⟳. It’s only 0.47 nanometers thick, which is one million times thinner than a human finger nail.”

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