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nanoscale

nanoscale adjective: on a scale measured in nanometers.

Adjective

nanoscale (not comparable)

  1. On a scale measured in nanometers.
    • The first such review would also include a study of whether it is feasible to create nanoscale devices that can assemble themselves or copies of themselves molecule by molecule -- a subject of fierce debate among nanotechnology experts.2003 November 20, Barnaby J. Feder, “Nanotechnology: Bill To Create Office Of Nanotechnology”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2021
    Synonyms:
    nanoscopic

Noun

nanoscale (plural nanoscales)

  1. A measuring tool with gradations in nanometers.
    • The nanoscales under development will have 10 000 to 40 000 graduations per 1 mm distance.2005, Jürgen Schulte, Nanotechnology: Global Strategies, Industry Trends and Applications, →ISBN, page 167
  2. The scale of nanotechnology.
    • As opposed to the microscale, the nanoscale is not just another step toward miniaturization: it results in a qualitatively new material.2006, Jessica Elzea Kogel, Industrial Minerals & Rocks: Commodities, Markets, and Use, →ISBN, page 1441

Examples of nanoscale in a sentence

  • Electron nanodiffraction refers to a set of electron diffraction techniques that enable structural analysis at nanoscale.
  • Nanoscale toughening mechanisms are also identified using high load nanoindentation and in-situ TEM picoindentation..
  • Novelists like Michael Crichton have imagined nanoscale robots creating an ecodisaster.

All 12 example sentences with nanoscale

Synonyms of nanoscale

Forms of nanoscale

pluralnanoscales

Origin of nanoscale

From nano- + scale.

Words formed from nanoscale

Questions about nanoscale

What does nanoscale mean?
Nanoscale means on a scale measured in nanometers.
What part of speech is nanoscale?
Nanoscale can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near nanoscale in the dictionary

  1. nanosatellite
  2. nanosatellites
  3. nanosats
  4. nanoscaffold
  5. nanoscaffolds
  6. nanoscale
  7. nanoscaled
  8. nanoscales
  9. nanoscience
  10. nanosciences
  11. nanoscientific

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