nanometre

[ UK /nˌænə‍ʊmˈiːtɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter
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How To Use nanometre In A Sentence

  • One nanometre is about a million times smaller than the size of a pinhead. IBM’s Snowflakes Yield Faster Chips | Impact Lab
  • Nanotechnology uses the scale of the nanometre, equal to one millionth of a millimetre.
  • Nanotechnology is used to study the fabrication and manipulation of structures that range in size from one hundred nanometres to a single nanometre (or a billionth of a metre).
  • A nanometre is a billionth of a meter, about the size of a few atoms combined. PC Advisor News
  • Nanotechnology uses the scale of the nanometre, equal to one millionth of a millimetre.
  • The electrons were able to break the chemical bonds holding chlorobenzene molecules to the silicon surface up to 10 nanometres from the tip ( New Scientist - Online News
  • At that rate each nanometre would equate to one centimetre. The Times Literary Supplement
  • 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! CES 2012: Intel keynote from Otellini brings Atom to smartphones
  • These things are measured in nanometres, with a nanometre being a millionth of a millimetre, or about as far as a fingernail grows in a second.
  • In this case, the pore fluids precipitate minerals as fast as the fractures are opening, which may happen in multiple episodes, such that the actual space between the facture walls never exceeded a few nanometres or micrometres.
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