nanotech

noun

nano·​tech ˈna-nō-ˌtek How to pronounce nanotech (audio)

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The film focuses on the mysterious nanotech walls sealing off buildings within Hamburg, but there’s no explicit indication that the outside environment is hazardous. Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 11 July 2025 By utilizing a blend of AI, biotech and nanotech, these platforms could optimize growth in low-gravity, high-radiation environments, ensuring sustainable food sources for astronauts and future space pioneers. Expert Panel®, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023 Nevertheless, several industrial research efforts (notably at Belgian nanotech research firm Imec, France’s CEA-Leti, and Intel) are developing technology that would build the two types of transistors in CMOS logic—NMOS and PMOS—one on top of the other. IEEE Spectrum, 21 July 2020 In the early 2000s, Bill Joy [then chief scientist at Sun Microsystems] wrote articles about how biotech, nanotech, and robotics were going to kill the world. Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2014

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First Known Use

1991, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of nanotech was in 1991

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“Nanotech.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nanotech. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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nanotech

noun
nano·​tech
ˈnan-ō-ˌtek
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