nanocrystal
noun
nanocrystal is a noun meaning “A crystalline entity whose size is measured in nanometers; an individual nanometer-sized crystal of such a material” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-A-N-O-C-R-Y-S-T-A-L, and it appears about once in every 29 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of nanocrystal is nanocrystals.
What does nanocrystal mean?
noun
- 1
A crystalline entity whose size is measured in nanometers; an individual nanometer-sized crystal of such a material.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce nanocrystal?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-nanocrystal.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of nanocrystal
- nanocrystals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is nanocrystal?
Nanocrystal appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th 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).
Nanocrystal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense nanometer sized crystal:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | nanocristal |
| German | Nanokristall |
| Spanish | nanocristal |
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 nanocrystal come from?
From nano- + crystal.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).