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🔬 Extremely tiny 📏 One trillionth
pico-

pico-

6.6
A word part that shows something is very small in size or amount
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  • To measure tiny distances, scientists often use the picometer scale.

Examples

  • And you can even see I there's, there's between pico and micro, there's something right.

  • It's called the Deeper Connect Pico, and this is a tiny little hardware VPN.

  • I'm going to be using the pico sauce, a little bit of water.

  • Last week's video, if I'm right in my head about what's going on, was about π Pico projects and link to that.

  • A pico-sized insect can easily hide beneath a leaf.

  • In nanotechnology, pico is a common term to describe particles that are just a few picometers in size.

How Small

pico-
  • Specialized
6.6
nano
  • Specialized
3.7
micro
4 5.1

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Pico- comes from Spanish and Italian words meaning 'a very small bit', and you can remember it like the Italian word piccolo ('small'), which names a tiny flute. So pico- is used as a combining form to show something extremely tiny, like in 'picograms' or 'picoseconds'.