Nanometer

German

Etymology

nano- + Meter

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Noun

Nanometer m, n (genitive Nanometers, plural Nanometer)

  1. nanometer (US), nanometre (UK)
    • 2010, Der Spiegel, issue 5/2010, page 106:
      Das grundlegende Problem aller optischen Mikroskope ist das Licht: Es schwingt, je nach Farbe, mit einer Wellenlänge von einigen hundert Nanometern.
      The fundamental problem of all optical microscopes is the light: it oscillates, depending on the color, with a wavelength of a few hundred nanometers.

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