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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun physics, archaic A
unit for themeasurement of many smalllengths , such that 1010 of these units make onemeter ; the ten millionth part of amillimeter .
Etymologies
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tenth + meter
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Logophile77 commented on the word tenthmeter
A tenth of a nanometre.
December 17, 2017
alexz commented on the word tenthmeter
When I studied metals, we use the unit Angstrom
December 17, 2017