nanometre

British

/ ˈnænəʊˌmiːtə /

noun

nm. one thousand-millionth of a metre

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Medicine could also make common use of machines at a nanometre scale to "deliver drugs to exactly where they need to go", said Professor Bramwell.

From BBC

"You can think of a liquid cooling maze through the silicon at nanometre scale," says Mr Speirs.

From BBC

"Sure, but are they going to get chips down to a nanometre? Probably not."

From BBC

In order to close this gap and demonstrate the reliability of the ANE method for visualising magnetic structures on the nanometre scale, the researchers used a magnetic vortex structure.

From Science Daily

According to the study, "fluctuations in density, energy and entropy in water are regulated by these quantum interactions, with effects ranging from the nanometre to the macroscopic scale," says researcher Luis E. Coronas.

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