nanometre
na·no·me·tre/ˈnænoʊˌmitər/noun
nanometre is a noun meaning “An SI subunit of length equal to 10⁻⁹ metres” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-A-N-O-M-E-T-R-E and has 4 syllables (na·no·me·tre), and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of nanometre is nanometres.
What does nanometre mean?
noun
- 1
An SI subunit of length equal to 10⁻⁹ metres.
Holonyms: micrometre < millimetre < centimetre < decimetre < metre < kilometre < megametre < gigametre < terametre < petametre
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce nanometre?
- UK /ˈnænə(ʊ)ˌmiːtə/
- US /ˈnænoʊˌmitər/
Nanometre has 4 syllables, split na·no·me·tre in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Pvanp7-nanometre.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of nanometre
- nanometres plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is nanometre?
Nanometre appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th 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 nanometre?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of nanometre: nano.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Nanometre in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense subunit of length:
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 nanometre come from?
From nano- + metre.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).