nanosatellite
noun
nanosatellite is a noun meaning “An artificial satellite with a wet mass between 1 and 10 kilograms” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-A-N-O-S-A-T-E-L-L-I-T-E, and it appears about once in every 50 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of nanosatellite is nanosatellites.
What does nanosatellite mean?
noun
- 1
An artificial satellite with a wet mass between 1 and 10 kilograms.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of nanosatellite
- nanosatellites plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is nanosatellite?
Nanosatellite appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th 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).
Nanosatellite in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense artificial satellite:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Nanosatellit |
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 nanosatellite come from?
From nano- + satellite.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).