Nanometre vs Ultraviolet - What's the difference?
nanometre | ultraviolet |
An SI subunit of length equal to 10-9 metres. Symbol: nm
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of electromagnetic radiation beyond (higher in frequency than) light visible to the human eye; radiation with wavelengths from 380 nanometre - 10 nanometre
Ultraviolet colour.
As nouns the difference between nanometre and ultraviolet
is that nanometre is an si subunit of length equal to 10-9 metres symbol: nm while ultraviolet is ultraviolet colour.As a adjective ultraviolet is
of electromagnetic radiation beyond (higher in frequency than) light visible to the human eye; radiation with wavelengths from 380 nanometre - 10 nanometre.nanometre
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Alternative forms
* (US ) nanometerNoun
(en noun)citation, passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer , the eon and the light-year.}}