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say it: nan-oh-tek-NAH-luh-jee
nanotechnology is a noun meaning "the branch of engineering that deals with things smaller than 100 nanometers (especially with the manipulation of individual molecules)". It is pronounced /ˌnænoʊˌtɛkˈnɑləˌdʒi/ — nan-oh-tek-NAH-luh-jee. It carries one recorded sense.
the branch of engineering that deals with things smaller than 100 nanometers (especially with the manipulation of individual molecules)
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nanotechnology come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.