nanomachine
noun, verb
nanomachine is a noun meaning “Any mechanical device, manufactured using nanotechnology, having a scale measured in nanometres” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-A-N-O-M-A-C-H-I-N-E, and it appears about once in every 76 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of nanomachine is nanomachines.
What does nanomachine mean?
noun
- 1
Any mechanical device, manufactured using nanotechnology, having a scale measured in nanometres.
verb
- 1
To machine with tolerances measured in nanometres.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of nanomachine
- nanomachines plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- nanomachining participle, present
- nanomachined participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is nanomachine?
Nanomachine appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th 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).
Nanomachine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | nanomachine |
| Spanish | nanomáquina |
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 nanomachine come from?
From nano- + machine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).