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Nanometer

//ˈnænəˌmitɚ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    US spelling of nanometre. US, alt-of

    "We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year."

  2. 2
    a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter wordnet

Etymology

From nano- + meter.

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