Nanometre

Alternative forms

• (US) nanometer

Origin

- + metre

Full definition of nanometre

Noun

1. An SI subunit of length equal to 10^-9 metres. Symbol: nm
• 2012-01, Robert L. Dorit, Rereading Darwin, We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.

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