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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A unit of length equal to one femtometer (10−15 meter).

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  • noun A unit of length equal to one femtometer or femtometre (10−15 m).

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Enrico Fermi.]

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