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ultranarrow

ultranarrow adjective: extremely narrow.

Adjective

ultranarrow (comparative more ultranarrow, superlative most ultranarrow)

  1. Extremely narrow.
    • However, the new approach, which is based on the company’s ability to accurately align chips with high precision making it possible to transmit beams of light across the surface of the chips in ultranarrow channels called wave guides, could have a much bigger impact.2008 March 24, John Markoff, “Replacing Wire With Laser, Sun Tries to Speed Up Data”, in New York Times

Forms of ultranarrow

comparativemore ultranarrow
superlativemost ultranarrow

Origin of ultranarrow

From ultra- + narrow.

Questions about ultranarrow

What does ultranarrow mean?
Ultranarrow means extremely narrow.
What part of speech is ultranarrow?
Ultranarrow is an adjective.

Words near ultranarrow in the dictionary

  1. ultramundane
  2. ultramutated
  3. ultramutation
  4. ultramylonite
  5. ultrananocrystalline
  6. ultranarrow
  7. ultranational
  8. ultranationalism
  9. ultranationalisms
  10. ultranationalist
  11. ultranationalistic

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