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nanomolar

adjective, noun

nanomolar is an adjective meaning “Describing concentrations one billionth (10⁻⁹) of molar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-A-N-O-M-O-L-A-R, and it appears about once in every 37 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does nanomolar mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Describing concentrations one billionth (10⁻⁹) of molar

noun

  1. 1

    A nanomolar amount or concentration

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

Forms of nanomolar

  • nanomolars plural

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

How common is nanomolar?

Nanomolar appears about once in every 37 million words in written English, the 187,122nd 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 nanomolar come from?

From nano- + molar.

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