How to Use nanometer in a Sentence

nanometer

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  • Huawei stockpiled a mass of the 5 nanometer chips ahead of the sanctions cut-off.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Physics had taken over: the ball was already over the line, by maybe a nanometer.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 6 Aug. 2023
  • By moving from 7 nanometers to 5, IBM has been able to keep the law intact.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 5 June 2017
  • Think of a nanometer as a tiny unit that measures the size of transistors on a chip.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 21 Sep. 2023
  • In the middle of the spectrum resides the color green, at around 555 nanometers.
    — Robert Jimison, CNN, 5 June 2017
  • These tiny virus packages are just tens to a few hundreds of nanometers across.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, National Geographic, 22 Feb. 2019
  • Yersinia pestis is tiny—only a fraction of a nanometer wide.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 28 June 2017
  • That's a tenth smaller, the level of atoms, than the nano scale, which is one nanometer to roughly 500 nanometers.
    — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2014
  • Within a few years, that is expected to shrink to less than a nanometer wide.
    — WSJ, 17 July 2021
  • Instead, the ball is placed within a few nanometers of an optical fiber, which allows the light to leak across the gap to the ball.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 27 June 2018
  • That is roughly the power required to lift one-thousandth of a grain of salt one nanometer once a day.
    — Quanta Magazine, 12 Aug. 2020
  • The scientists will then pour the DNA into 5,000 nanometer-sized glass beads.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2018
  • On the grid Key to this new work are tiny sheets of platinum only two nanometers thick—that's just over 11 atoms of the element.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2018
  • All the new phones are powered by a new seven-nanometer A12 Bionic chip.
    — Shannon Liao, The Verge, 12 Sep. 2018
  • Most lidars use lasers at the 905 nanometer wavelength.
    — Alex Davies, WIRED, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Full-size SEMs can achieve a resolution of one to 20 nanometers.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2019
  • The polymer forms a dense web; its threads, only a nanometer or two apart, are anchored to points within the sample.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Jan. 2018
  • In the processor industry, the smaller the nanometer measure, the smaller the chip size.
    — Don Reisinger, Fortune, 20 July 2019
  • His team wants to pin down the location of the moving ion to less than a nanometer, a fraction of the ion’s own diameter.
    — Sophia Chen, WIRED, 20 June 2019
  • China’s foundries can etch circuits as small as 28 nanometers apart.
    — Joe McDonald, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Chip makers mark their tech prowess in this Lilliputian world by the nanometer, a billionth of a meter.
    — Jiyoung Sohn, WSJ, 28 July 2022
  • Beginning in 2024, Intel will shift from nanometer as the standard of measurement in its chips to the angstrom.
    — oregonlive, 26 July 2021
  • If the plates are brought close enough together—held only nanometers apart—there isn't enough physical space for the full set of fields to form.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 June 2019
  • Each letter of the names is only 400 nanometers wide, which is really small.
    — Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 Jan. 2018
  • The process lasted only a fraction of a second, and the diamonds were no bigger than a nanometer in length.
    — Sarah Kaplan, chicagotribune.com, 25 Aug. 2017
  • Read this slowly: A nanometer is a millionth of a millimeter.
    — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Each nanometer, equal to one billionth of a meter, measures the size of transistors within a chip.
    — Time, 19 Oct. 2021
  • In some places, the atoms in the boron nitride layers line up precisely with the carbon atoms in the graphene layers, but a few nanometers away they are offset.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 17 July 2019
  • Had contact occurred even a nanometer lower on the barrel of his bat, Frazier likely would have squared up the pitch.
    — Hunter Atkins, Houston Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2017
  • So there will still be a huge demand for even two nanometers semiconductors.
    — Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2024

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