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nano-
| a combining form with the meaning “very small, minute,” used in the formation of compound words (nanoplankton); in the names of units of measure it has the specific sense “one billionth” (10-9): nanomole; nanosecond. |
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| nano- pref.
[Greek nānos, nannos, little old man, dwarf, from nannās, uncle.] |
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nano-
pref. [SI: the next quantifier below micro-; meaning * 10^(-9)] Smaller than micro-, and used in the same rather loose and connotative way. Thus, one has nanotechnology (coined by hacker K. Eric Drexler) by analogy with `microtechnology'; and a few machine architectures have a `nanocode' level below `microcode'. Tom Duff at Bell Labs has also pointed out that "Pi seconds is a nanocentury". See also quantifiers, pico-, nanoacre, nanobot, nanocomputer, nanofortnight.
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Language Translation for : nano-
Spanish:
billonésimo,
German:
ein Billionstel,
Japanese:
10億分の1
nano- pref.
- Extremely small: nanoid.
- One-billionth (10-9): nanometer.
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nano-
/nan'oh/ 1.
Used loosely to mean "small", e.g. nanotechnology, or (rarely), following "nanosecond", to mean a short time, e.g. "I'll be with you in a nano".
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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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