nanophase
adjective, noun
nanophase is an adjective meaning “Describes very small particles in a dispersion etc” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-A-N-O-P-H-A-S-E, and it appears about once in every 93 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does nanophase mean?
adjective
- 1
Describes very small particles in a dispersion etc.
noun
- 1
Such a phase.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of nanophase
- more nanophase comparative
- most nanophase superlative
- nanophases plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is nanophase?
Nanophase appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd 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 nanophase come from?
From nano- + phase.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).