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nanoprobe

noun

nanoprobe is a noun meaning “An optical device for viewing extremely small objects” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-A-N-O-P-R-O-B-E, and it appears about once in every 95 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of nanoprobe is nanoprobes.

What does nanoprobe mean?

noun

  1. 1

    An optical device for viewing extremely small objects.

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

Forms of nanoprobe

  • nanoprobes plural

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

How common is nanoprobe?

Nanoprobe appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th 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 nanoprobe come from?

From nano- + probe.

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