nanometer

From nano- +‎ meter.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnænəˌmitɚ/, [ˈnænəˌmiɾɚ], [ˈnɛənəˌmiɾɚ]

nanometer (plural nanometers)

1. US spelling of nanometre.
   • 2012 January, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 14 November 2012, 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.

   • 2016 January 14, “Toward Bioremediation of Methylmercury Using Silica Encapsulated Escherichia coli Harboring the mer Operon”, in PLOS ONE‎^[2], →DOI:

     Images also indicated that gel porosity was in the nanometer range, similar to previously characterized hyperporous beads generated using the same sol-gel methods, which limits mobility of encapsulated cells (Fig 2B ) [23 ].

   • 2017, Ashok K. Goel et al., “Is Biologically Inspired Design Domain Independent?”, in John S. Gero, editor, Design Computing and Cognition ’16, →ISBN, page 157:

     It is noteworthy that biological phenomena occur at scales ranging from nanometers to megameters, and from nanoseconds to gigaannums.

   • 2019 August 6, Ashley Strickland, “Scientists just created the world’s thinnest gold and it’s two atoms thick”, in CNN‎^[3]:

     The newest form of gold created in a lab is the thickness of two atoms, according to a new study. It’s only 0.47 nanometers thick, which is one million times thinner than a human finger nail.

• nanometre

From nano- +‎ meter.

nanometer c (singular definite nanometeren, plural indefinite nanometer)

1. nanometre, or nanometer (US) (SI unit of length)

• “nanometer” in Den Danske Ordbog

From nano- +‎ meter.

nanometer m inan

1. nanometre, nanometer

• “nanometer”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

nanometer c

1. a nanometre

Indefinite form plural could also be nanometrar/nanometrars