nanometer

Other forms of nanometer

plural

nanometers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nanometer

What does nanometer mean?

nanometer means "a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter".

How many syllables are in nanometer?

nanometer has 4 syllables: nan-o-me-ter. The stress falls on "nan". In IPA it is /ˈnænoʊˌmitɚ/.

What is another word for nanometer?

Close synonyms include nanometre, nm, millimicron, micromillimeter, micromillimetre. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nanometer a common word?

nanometer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with nanometer?

9 words rhyme with nanometer. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.