nanometre

Other forms of nanometre

plural

nanometres·

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 nanometre

What does nanometre mean?

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

How many syllables are in nanometre?

nanometre has 3 syllables: na-no-metre. The stress falls on "na".

What is another word for nanometre?

Close synonyms include nanometer, 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 nanometre a common word?

nanometre 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.