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ultrathin

ultrathin adjective: extremely thin; of utmost thinness.

Adjective

ultrathin (not comparable)

  1. Extremely thin; of utmost thinness.
    • When you build your esteem on the media's ultrathin, superslim image, you are going to lose by comparison.2001, Charles R Gerber, Christ-Centered Self-Esteem
    • Planar metamaterials with subwavelength thickness, or metasurfaces, consisting of single-layer or few-layer stacks of planar structures, can be readily fabricated using lithography and nanoprinting methods, and the ultrathin thickness in the wave propagation direction can greatly suppress the...2016 May 24, Hou-Tong Chen, Antoinette J Taylor, Nanfang Yu, “A review of metasurfaces: physics and applications”, in arXiv, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2022

Origin of ultrathin

From ultra- + thin.

Words formed from ultrathin

Questions about ultrathin

What does ultrathin mean?
Ultrathin means extremely thin; of utmost thinness.
What part of speech is ultrathin?
Ultrathin is an adjective.

Words near ultrathin in the dictionary

  1. ultraterrene
  2. ultraterrestrial
  3. ultratherm
  4. ultratherms
  5. ultrathick
  6. ultrathin
  7. ultrathinly
  8. ultrathinness
  9. ultratight
  10. ultratiny
  11. ultratome

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