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For scale, a human hair is roughly 80,000 to 100,000 nanometers wide.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 21 Nov. 2024
But electron microscopy of SARS-CoV-2 shows its spikes are about 25 nanometers apart, too distant for a single B cell receptor to readily bind to two at once.
—Byjon Cohen, science.org, 11 Oct. 2024
But still way behind ASML’s machines with resolutions below 10 nanometers.
—Anniek Bao, CNBC, 27 Sep. 2024
It was made during the week of August 10, 2020, in Taiwan on TSMC’s 5 nanometer node, and Huawei stockpiled a large number of the chips ahead of US sanctions.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 Sep. 2024
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First Known Use
1963, in the meaning defined above
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“Nanometer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nanometer. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
nanometer
noun
nano·meter
ˈnan-ə-ˌmēt-ər
: one billionth of a meter
Medical Definition
nanometer
noun
nano·me·ter
variants
or chiefly British nanometre
: one billionth of a meter
—abbreviation nm
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