nanometer

American  

[nan-uh-mee-ter, ney-nuh-] / ˈnæn əˌmi tər, ˈneɪ nə- /

noun

1. one billionth of a meter. nm

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nanometer Scientific  

/ năn′ə-mē′tər /

1. One billionth (10 ^{- 9}) of a meter.

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Etymology

Origin of nanometer

First recorded in 1960–65; nano- + meter ¹

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Example Sentences

It consists of precisely arranged silver nanocubes positioned on a transparent layer located just 10 nanometers above a thin sheet of gold.

From Science Daily

For scale, a nanometer is one millionth of a millimeter.

From Science Daily

Instead, they can spread into much larger, topological structures that extend across hundreds of nanometers.

From Science Daily

The final frontier of silicon etching aims to cut that down to about 5 nanometers.

From The Wall Street Journal

And it is in Taiwan where it makes its most advanced chips, which today have transistors as small as two nanometers.

From The Wall Street Journal