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nanoradian

nanoradian noun: one billionth (10⁻⁹) of a radian.

Noun

nanoradian (plural nanoradians)

  1. One billionth (10⁻⁹) of a radian.
    • The ground-based navigation is expected to achieve an angular precision of 50 nanoradians using very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI).1988, T.K. Peng, J.W. Armstrong, J.C. Breidenthal, F.F. Donivan, N.C. Ham, “Deep space network enhancement for the Galileo mission to Jupiter”, in Acta Astronautica, volume 17, number 3, →DOI, page...

Forms of nanoradian

pluralnanoradians

Origin of nanoradian

From nano- + radian.

Questions about nanoradian

What does nanoradian mean?
Nanoradian means one billionth (10⁻⁹) of a radian.
What part of speech is nanoradian?
Nanoradian is a noun.
What is the plural of nanoradian?
The plural of nanoradian is nanoradians.

Words near nanoradian in the dictionary

  1. NanoPutians
  2. nanopyramid
  3. nanopyramids
  4. nanoquilt
  5. nanoquilts
  6. nanoradian
  7. nanoradians
  8. nanorchestid
  9. nanorder
  10. nanorders
  11. nanoreactor

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