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nanoparticle

nanoparticle noun: any microscopic particle less than about 100 nanometers (nm) in diameter.

Noun

nanoparticle (plural nanoparticles)

  1. Any microscopic particle less than about 100 nanometers (nm) in diameter.
    • Nanoparticles of various sorts are already found in products like sunscreen, paint and inkjet paper. More exotic varieties offer promise in medicine for sensitive diagnostic tests and novel treatments: the detection of Alzheimer's disease by finding a protein in spinal fluid, for instance, or...2005 February 22, Kenneth Chang, “Tiny Is Beautiful: Translating 'Nano' Into Practical”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2021
    • The high surface area of a nanoparticle relative to its weight and volume makes it behave differently from larger masses of the same material.2012 May 22, Jacy Meyer, “To Czech Industry, Everything Is Nano”, in The International Herald Tribune, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 Dec 2020

nanoparticle meaning in Tamil and Bengali

nanoparticle in Tamil

மீநுண்துகள்

nanoparticle in Bengali

ন্যানোকণা

Examples of nanoparticle in a sentence

  • Similarly, a few studies have suggested that high-quality respirators can trap 95 percent of nanoparticles.
  • Nanoparticles will also be the building blocks for complex structures like nanowires and molecule electronic devices.
  • These findings demonstrate that C6-labeled nanoparticles facilitate drug outflow from lysosomes, and that the fluorochrome is primarily distributed in the cytochylema.

All 10 example sentences with nanoparticle

Forms of nanoparticle

pluralnanoparticles

Plural of nanoparticle: nanoparticles

Origin of nanoparticle

From nano- + particle.

Words formed from nanoparticle

Questions about nanoparticle

What does nanoparticle mean?
Nanoparticle means any microscopic particle less than about 100 nanometers (nm) in diameter.
What is nanoparticle in Tamil?
Nanoparticle in Tamil is மீநுண்துகள். See Nanoparticle meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is nanoparticle?
Nanoparticle is a noun.
What is the plural of nanoparticle?
The plural of nanoparticle is nanoparticles.

Words near nanoparticle in the dictionary

  1. nanooscillator
  2. nanooscillators
  3. nanopackage
  4. nanopackages
  5. nanopackaging
  6. nanoparticle
  7. nanoparticles
  8. nanoparticular
  9. nanoparticulate
  10. nanoparticulated
  11. nanoparticulates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nanoparticle (page history and authors); nanoparticle (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nanoparticle (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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