Subunit vs Nanometre - What's the difference?
subunit | nanometre |
An SI subunit of length equal to 10-9 metres. Symbol: nm
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As nouns the difference between subunit and nanometre
is that subunit is any subdivision of a larger unit while nanometre is an SI subunit of length equal to 10-9 metres. Symbol: nm.nanometre
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* (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.}}