Nanometres is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Nanometres meaning
plural of nanometre
Using Nanometres
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of nanometre
- In the example corpus, nanometres often appears in combinations such as: few nanometres, of nanometres, nanometres thick.
Context around Nanometres
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 6 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Nanometres
- In this selection, "nanometres" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, 100, few, 500, thick, percolates and apart stand out and add context to how "nanometres" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 450 495 nanometres and a few nanometres thick assemble. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "nanometres" sits close to words such as aadi, aakash and aayush, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with nanometres
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Ultrafine particles (UFP) are 100 nanometres or smaller in size. (10 words)
Pure blue, in the middle, has a wavelength of 470 nanometres. (11 words)
Optics Human eyes perceive blue when observing light which has a wavelength between 450-495 nanometres. (16 words)
They are fiendishly difficult to work with, in part because they are unbelievably tiny: about 10 nanometres across – not much wider than the helix of your DNA, and about as long as your fingernails grow in 10 seconds. (38 words)
In the deep waters that the hatchetfish lives in, only blue light with a wavelength of 500 nanometres percolates down and needs to be reflected, so mirrors 125 nanometres apart provide good camouflage. (33 words)
The research team discovered that protein nanosheets, films only a few nanometres thick, assemble at the surface of such liquids and display strong mechanical properties sufficient to resist cell-generated forces. (31 words)
Example sentences (10)
In the deep waters that the hatchetfish lives in, only blue light with a wavelength of 500 nanometres percolates down and needs to be reflected, so mirrors 125 nanometres apart provide good camouflage.
They are fiendishly difficult to work with, in part because they are unbelievably tiny: about 10 nanometres across – not much wider than the helix of your DNA, and about as long as your fingernails grow in 10 seconds.
Ultrafine particles (UFP) are 100 nanometres or smaller in size.
The research team discovered that protein nanosheets, films only a few nanometres thick, assemble at the surface of such liquids and display strong mechanical properties sufficient to resist cell-generated forces.
His sail would use panels of thin aluminium film (30 to 100 nanometres thick) supported by a tensile structure.
Modern experiments indicate that the two-way speed of light is isotropic (the same in every direction) to within 6 nanometres per second.
Optics Human eyes perceive blue when observing light which has a wavelength between 450-495 nanometres.
Pure blue, in the middle, has a wavelength of 470 nanometres.
These tubes of carbon are usually only a few nanometres wide, but they can range from less than a micrometer to several millimeters in length.
The spin coating process results in a uniform thin layer, usually with uniformity of within 5 to 10 nanometres.
Common combinations with nanometres
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- few nanometres 3×
- of nanometres 2×
- nanometres thick 2×
- to nanometres 2×