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submicrometric

submicrometric adjective: having a scale less than a micrometer.

Adjective

submicrometric (not comparable)

  1. Having a scale less than a micrometer.
    • Even though no obvious staining was observed in our case, contact with the vapor was still found to perform very faint etching at a submicrometric scale.2015 September 17, “Limpet Shells from the Aterian Level 8 of El Harhoura 2 Cave (Témara, Morocco): Preservation State of Crossed-Foliated Layers”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of submicrometric

From sub- + micrometric.

Questions about submicrometric

What does submicrometric mean?
Submicrometric means having a scale less than a micrometer.
What part of speech is submicrometric?
Submicrometric is an adjective.

Words near submicrometric in the dictionary

  1. submicroliter
  2. submicrolitre
  3. submicrometer
  4. submicrometers
  5. submicrometre
  6. submicrometric
  7. submicromolar
  8. submicron
  9. submicronic
  10. submicrons
  11. submicroparticle

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