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- noun Plural form of
nanite .
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Examples
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In this case, by removing the nanites from the children, they are rendered almost zombies, with their personalities destroyed.
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 Steve gathered enough of his wits to ask the Vision for a favor during the Kree-Skrull war, while Reed Richards and Henry Pym worked together with the New Avengers to try and decode what’s going on with certain nanites (ugh) in Sharon Carter’s blood …
Review: Captain America - Reborn #4 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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In essense the nanites are a hive mind intellegence where each individual nanite is dumb but together they can solve complex problems and preform complex tasks (imagine if all the cells in a human brain could moved autonomously from one another but still work together).
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In an experimental procedure the FBI attempt to extract information from his long-dead brain by injecting microscopic computers called nanites into his blood.
Screen Rant Rob Frappier 2010
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This time the pain itself howled out of his mouth, as the nanites did their work.
365 tomorrows » Roi R. Czechvala : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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This time, I was a high-school student somewhere in the Ozarks, only it was an Asian vampire film involving nanites, a very gory Asian vampire film that just happened to also be a musical (and I blame "Once More, With Feeling").
"This flood will swallow all you've left behind." greygirlbeast 2009
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Oh, and he has Borg nanites implanted in him that will kill him in a week, too.
Book Review: Odyssey- The Omnibus Edition Collecting the First Three Books in the Shatnerverse 2009
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Her T-shirt was ripped and the changing name/logo nanites had been drained through the hole.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Scribblar’s Review Forum 2009
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This time the pain itself howled out of his mouth, as the nanites did their work.
365 tomorrows » 2010 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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Some of them are brainwashed, or have given into the nanites.
365 tomorrows » Kathy Kachelries : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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