nm

Other forms of nm

plural

nms·

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 nm

What does nm mean?

nm means "a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nm?

nm has 1 syllable: nm.

What is another word for nm?

Close synonyms include nanometer, nanometre, 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 nm a common word?

nm 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.