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nanobiotechnology

noun

nanobiotechnology is a noun meaning “Any of several forms of biotechnology employing devices on the nano scale” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-A-N-O-B-I-O-T-E-C-H-N-O-L-O-G-Y, and it appears about once in every 47 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of nanobiotechnology is nanobiotechnologies.

What does nanobiotechnology mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any of several forms of biotechnology employing devices on the nano scale

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of nanobiotechnology

  • nanobiotechnologies plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is nanobiotechnology?

Nanobiotechnology appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you abbreviate nanobiotechnology?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of nanobiotechnology: nanobiotech.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Nanobiotechnology in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense any of several forms of biotechnology employing devices on the nano scale:

LanguageWords
Frenchnanobiotechnologie

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does nanobiotechnology come from?

From nano- + biotechnology.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).