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femtomachine

femtomachine noun: a (hypothetical or fictional) machine on the femto scale; that is, a mechanical device whose size is on the order of the femtometer.

Noun

femtomachine (plural femtomachines)

  1. (rare) A (hypothetical or fictional) machine on the femto scale; that is, a mechanical device whose size is on the order of the femtometer.
    • Femtomachines built from exotic nuclei had been employed as special-purpose computers ever since the basic design had been developed, six thousand years before.2002, Greg Egan, Schild's Ladder, HarperCollins, published 2004, →ISBN, page 21

Forms of femtomachine

pluralfemtomachines

Origin of femtomachine

From femto- + machine, by analogy with micromachine, nanomachine, and so on.

Questions about femtomachine

What does femtomachine mean?
Femtomachine means a (hypothetical or fictional) machine on the femto scale; that is, a mechanical device whose size is on the order of the femtometer.
What part of speech is femtomachine?
Femtomachine is a noun.
What is the plural of femtomachine?
The plural of femtomachine is femtomachines.

Words near femtomachine in the dictionary

  1. femtolensing
  2. femtoliter
  3. femtoliters
  4. femtolitre
  5. femtolitres
  6. femtomachine
  7. femtomachines
  8. femtomagnetism
  9. femtometer
  10. femtometers
  11. femtometre

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