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nanoengineering

nanoengineering noun: engineering on the nanoscale.

Noun

nanoengineering (uncountable)

  1. Engineering on the nanoscale.
    • “We have been working on nanomachines over the past decade,” Joseph Wang, chairman of nanoengineering at UCSD, said. “One of the challenges we considered is to deliver therapeutic cargo deep.2016 February 1, Tom Whipple, “Microcannon firing nanobullets: the future of targeted medicine”, in The Times

Origin of nanoengineering

From nano- + engineering.

Questions about nanoengineering

What does nanoengineering mean?
Nanoengineering means engineering on the nanoscale.
What part of speech is nanoengineering?
Nanoengineering is a noun.

Words near nanoengineering in the dictionary

  1. nanoencapsulations
  2. nanoengager
  3. nanoengagers
  4. nanoengineer
  5. nanoengineered
  6. nanoengineering
  7. nanoengineers
  8. nanoenhancer
  9. nanoenhancers
  10. nanoenvironment
  11. nanoenvironmental

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