nanometre

See also: nanomètre and nano-metre

English

Alternative forms

(US) nanometer

Etymology

nano- +‎ metre

Noun

nanometre (plural nanometres)

An SI subunit of length equal to 10^-9 metres. Symbol: nm
- 2012 January 1, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 1, page 23:
  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.

Translations

subunit of length

Catalan: nanòmetre
Chinese:
Cantonese: 納米, 纳米 (naap⁶ mai⁵)

Hakka: 奈米 (nái-mì)

Mandarin: 納米 (zh), 纳米 (zh) (nàmǐ), 奈米 (nàimǐ) (Taiwan)
Czech: nanometr (cs) m
Dutch: nanometer (nl)
Esperanto: nanometro
Finnish: nanometri (fi)
French: nanomètre (fr)
Georgian: ნანომეტრი (nanomeṭri)
German: Nanometer (de) m
Hungarian: nanométer (hu)
Italian: nanometro (it) m

Japanese: ナノメートル (ja) (nanomētoru)
Khmer: រស្សមាត្រ (ras sak mart), ណាណូម៉ែត្រ (na no maet)
Lao: ນາໂນແມັດ (lo) (nā nō mæt)
Latvian: nanometrs
Polish: nanometr (pl) m
Portuguese: nanômetro m
Romanian: nanometru m
Russian: наноме́тр (ru) m (nanométr)
Slovak: nanometer m
Spanish: nanómetro (es) m
Swedish: nanometer (sv) c
Turkish: nanometre (tr)
Vietnamese: nanômét (vi)

Anagrams

nanometer

Turkish

Etymology

nano- +‎ metre

Noun

nanometre

nanometre, nanometer

Further reading

nanometre in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

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