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  • adjective Below the molecular scale; smaller than a molecule

Etymologies

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sub- +‎ molecular

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Examples

  • That device is capable of rearranging matter on a submolecular level.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

  • That device is capable of rearranging matter on a submolecular level.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

  • That device is capable of rearranging matter on a submolecular level.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

  • Yes, but will your existence be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing, nothing, nothing but the truth down to the submolecular, quantum level, so help you the American Literary Taliban you know, God.

    Stray Questions for: Jim Holt - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

  • Hopefully with the help of smart scientists working at the submolecular level, the scariest headlines we will likely read in the future will be "Terrorist Plot Foiled" rather than the ones we saw following the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001.

    Nanotech Takes On Homeland Terror Josh Wolfe 2006

  • Based on her calculations, one of the submolecular compounds in the toxin would be stimulated by the short-frequency light rays and start to vibrate.

    Breakdowns Scott Ciencin 2003

  • At the same time, Lieutenant Dax had been working with the poster itself, using a new, submolecular chromatography procedure capable of isolating and identifying the DNA markers from a sample smaller than a single cell.

    Betrayal Lois Tilton 2000

  • And in the 'air of the room, moved by tiny submolecular machines drifted, seeking entry points into infinitely larger machines.

    Delta Search Shatner, William 1997

  • "Don't you remember the paper I submitted to the Journal of Quantum Medicine last month, about the submolecular effects of wormhole passage?"

    Time's Enemy Graf, L. A. 1996

  • On this conception, then, the mutations ordinarily result from submicroscopic accidents, that is, from caprices of thermal agitation, that occur on a molecular and submolecular scale.

    Hermann J. Muller - Nobel Lecture 1964

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