Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In physical, a unit of length equal to l0- meters, or one ten-millionth of a meter.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Physics) A unit for the measurement of many small lengths, such that 1010 of these units make one meter; the ten millionth part of a millimeter.

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  • noun physics, archaic A unit for the measurement of many small lengths, such that 1010 of these units make one meter; the ten millionth part of a millimeter.

Etymologies

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tenth +‎ meter

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  • A tenth of a nanometre.

    December 17, 2017

  • When I studied metals, we use the unit Angstrom

    December 17, 2017