How to Use nanometer in a Sentence

nanometer

noun

• Physics had taken over: the ball was already over the line, by maybe a nanometer.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 6 Aug. 2023
• By moving from 7 nanometers to 5, IBM has been able to keep the law intact.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 5 June 2017
• Think of a nanometer as a tiny unit that measures the size of transistors on a chip.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 21 Sep. 2023
• In the middle of the spectrum resides the color green, at around 555 nanometers.
  — Robert Jimison, CNN, 5 June 2017
• These tiny virus packages are just tens to a few hundreds of nanometers across.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, National Geographic, 22 Feb. 2019
• Yersinia pestis is tiny—only a fraction of a nanometer wide.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 28 June 2017
• Within a few years, that is expected to shrink to less than a nanometer wide.
  — WSJ, 17 July 2021
• Instead, the ball is placed within a few nanometers of an optical fiber, which allows the light to leak across the gap to the ball.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 27 June 2018
• That is roughly the power required to lift one-thousandth of a grain of salt one nanometer once a day.
  — Quanta Magazine, 12 Aug. 2020
• The scientists will then pour the DNA into 5,000 nanometer-sized glass beads.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2018
• On the grid Key to this new work are tiny sheets of platinum only two nanometers thick—that's just over 11 atoms of the element.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2018
• All the new phones are powered by a new seven-nanometer A12 Bionic chip.
  — Shannon Liao, The Verge, 12 Sep. 2018
• Most lidars use lasers at the 905 nanometer wavelength.
  — Alex Davies, WIRED, 12 Apr. 2018
• Full-size SEMs can achieve a resolution of one to 20 nanometers.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2019
• The polymer forms a dense web; its threads, only a nanometer or two apart, are anchored to points within the sample.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Jan. 2018
• In the processor industry, the smaller the nanometer measure, the smaller the chip size.
  — Don Reisinger, Fortune, 20 July 2019
• His team wants to pin down the location of the moving ion to less than a nanometer, a fraction of the ion’s own diameter.
  — Sophia Chen, WIRED, 20 June 2019
• China’s foundries can etch circuits as small as 28 nanometers apart.
  — Joe McDonald, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2023
• Chip makers mark their tech prowess in this Lilliputian world by the nanometer, a billionth of a meter.
  — Jiyoung Sohn, WSJ, 28 July 2022
• Beginning in 2024, Intel will shift from nanometer as the standard of measurement in its chips to the angstrom.
  — oregonlive, 26 July 2021
• If the plates are brought close enough together—held only nanometers apart—there isn't enough physical space for the full set of fields to form.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 June 2019
• Each letter of the names is only 400 nanometers wide, which is really small.
  — Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 Jan. 2018
• The process lasted only a fraction of a second, and the diamonds were no bigger than a nanometer in length.
  — Sarah Kaplan, chicagotribune.com, 25 Aug. 2017
• Read this slowly: A nanometer is a millionth of a millimeter.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2022
• Each nanometer, equal to one billionth of a meter, measures the size of transistors within a chip.
  — Time, 19 Oct. 2021
• In some places, the atoms in the boron nitride layers line up precisely with the carbon atoms in the graphene layers, but a few nanometers away they are offset.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 17 July 2019
• Had contact occurred even a nanometer lower on the barrel of his bat, Frazier likely would have squared up the pitch.
  — Hunter Atkins, Houston Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2017
• This technique allows researchers to record the scattering of x-rays through a sample with defects in the nanometer range.
  — Elsbeth Sites, Discover Magazine, 6 Oct. 2015
• The project was a fun way to demonstrate that the μRobotex can operate with an accuracy of less than two nanometers.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 24 May 2018
• So the industry standard is to use silicon, run at 905 nanometers, and accept you just can’t send your lasers all that far.
  — Alex Davies, WIRED, 12 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 28 May 2024