nanometre
/ˈnænoʊˌmitər/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.50 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Holonyms: micrometre < millimetre < centimetre < decimetre < metre < kilometre < megametre < gigametre < terametre < petametre"
- "Meronym: picometre"
- "A nanometre is one billionth of a metre. A single atom is between a tenth to half a nanometre across; a million or more of them stacked on top of one another would equal the thickness of a piece of paper."
- "The resulting nanopasta is 372 nanometres thick, or about the same size as a measles virus."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈnænoʊˌmitər/
- British English: /ˈnænə(ʊ)ˌmiːtə/
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Frequently Paired Words
mul:nm
nanometer