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femtomachines

femtomachines is the plural of femtomachine.

Meaning of femtomachine

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

Questions about femtomachines

What is femtomachines the plural of?
Femtomachines is the plural of femtomachine.

Words near femtomachines in the dictionary

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

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