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nanogenerator

noun

nanogenerator is a noun meaning “Any electrical generator whose scale is measured in nanometers; they typically create electricity from the random movements of their surroundings” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-A-N-O-G-E-N-E-R-A-T-O-R, and it appears about once in every 98 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of nanogenerator is nanogenerators.

What does nanogenerator mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any electrical generator whose scale is measured in nanometers; they typically create electricity from the random movements of their surroundings.

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

Forms of nanogenerator

  • nanogenerators plural

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

How common is nanogenerator?

Nanogenerator appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th 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).

Where does nanogenerator come from?

From nano- + generator.

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