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nanosieve

nanosieve noun: a device that functions as a nanoscale sieve.

Noun

nanosieve (plural nanosieves)

  1. A device that functions as a nanoscale sieve
    • Thanks to such spin-conversion nanosieve helical elements, it is no longer necessary to employ the conventional two-beam interferometric measurement to characterize optical vortices, while the interference can be realized natively without changing any parts of the current setup.2016, Shengtao Mei, Muhammad. Qasim. Mehmood, Sajid Hussain, Kun Huang, Xiaohui Ling, Shawn.Yohanes.Siew, Hong Liu, Jinghua Teng, Aaron Danner, Cheng-Wei Qiu, “Flat Helical Nanosieves”, in arXiv

Forms of nanosieve

pluralnanosieves

Origin of nanosieve

From nano- + sieve.

Questions about nanosieve

What does nanosieve mean?
Nanosieve means a device that functions as a nanoscale sieve.
What part of speech is nanosieve?
Nanosieve is a noun.
What is the plural of nanosieve?
The plural of nanosieve is nanosieves.

Words near nanosieve in the dictionary

  1. nanoshell
  2. nanoshells
  3. nanoshuttle
  4. nanoshuttles
  5. nanosiemens
  6. nanosieve
  7. nanosievert
  8. nanosieverts
  9. nanosieves
  10. nanosilica
  11. nanosilicate

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