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nanometre

Syllables: na·no·me·tre/ˈnænə(ʊ)ˌmiːtə/US/ˈnænoʊˌmitər/

nanometre noun: an SI subunit of length equal to 10⁻⁹ metres.

Noun

nanometre (plural nanometres)

  1. An SI subunit of length equal to 10⁻⁹ metres.
    • Holonyms: micrometre < millimetre < centimetre < decimetre < metre < kilometre < megametre < gigametre < terametre < petametre
    • Meronym: picometre

nanometre meaning in Telugu, Tagalog, Thai and Vietnamese

nanometre in Telugu

nanometre, nanometer
నానోమీటరు nānōmīṭaru

nanometre in Tagalog

subunit of length
nanometro

nanometre in Thai

subunit of length
นาโนเมตร

nanometre in Vietnamese

subunit of length
nanômét

Examples of nanometre in a sentence

  • A nanometre is one billionth of a metre.2010 September 2, Thomas Barfield, “Get ready for a world of nanotechnology”, in The Guardian:
  • The resulting nanopasta is 372 nanometres thick, or about the same size as a measles virus.2024 November 25, Ellen Phiddian, “There's nanna's pasta, and then there's nanopasta”, in Cosmos, Adelaide, S.A.: CSIRO Publishing, →ISSN...

Forms of nanometre

pluralnanometres

Origin of nanometre

From nano- + metre.

Words formed from nanometre

Words that rhyme with nanometre

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Questions about nanometre

What does nanometre mean?
Nanometre means an SI subunit of length equal to 10⁻⁹ metres.
What is nanometre in Telugu?
Nanometre in Telugu is నానోమీటరు (nānōmīṭaru). See Nanometre meaning in Telugu.
How do you use nanometre in a sentence?
A nanometre is one billionth of a metre.
What part of speech is nanometre?
Nanometre is a noun.
How do you pronounce nanometre?
Nanometre is pronounced /ˈnænə(ʊ)ˌmiːtə/ (UK).
What is the plural of nanometre?
The plural of nanometre is nanometres.

Words near nanometre in the dictionary

  1. nanometallic
  2. nanometallurgy
  3. nanometals
  4. nanometer
  5. nanometers
  6. nanometre
  7. nanometres
  8. nanometric
  9. nanometrical
  10. nanometrically
  11. nanometrological

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nanometre (page history and authors); నానోమీటరు (Telugu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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