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- noun
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nanómetro
- A typical wavelength of green light is about 500 nm, which is useful for various optical applications.
- 100 nm
- 10 nm
- nm diameter
Examples
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Gap widths of the order of 10 nm are convenient.
Academic text (1995) -
Pits as small as 100 nm across and 10 nm deep have been written in this way.
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If, for example, the well is 50 nm wide, that comes to 6 med.
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To estimate the possible performance of a nanoDASD, a bit size of 30 nm has been chosen.
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Fibers are made up of fibrils, which themselves are approximately 20-100 nm in diameter.
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Each elastin fiber is made up of microfibrils of 10-12 nm in diameter. Elastin is produced by fibroblasts.
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Exosomes are multiform, spherical to cup-shaped nanovesicles of 40-100 nm diameter that are secreted by many cell types (Fig. 1).
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The diameter of the virus was measured at 100 nm, which is too small to be seen with the naked eye.
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The semiconductor industry is now producing transistors that are only 7 nm wide, allowing for greater efficiency.
Synonyms
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One billionth of a meter used to measure very small parts like computer chips
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A unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter called a nanometer
A very small length equal to one billionth of a meter
How Small
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140
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621
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572
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Nm is short for the parts nano- and metre, where nano- means 'very small' and metre means 'measure of length'. So, nm means a very tiny length, one billionth of a metre.