How to Use nanometer in a Sentence

nanometer

noun

• These tiny virus packages are just tens to a few hundreds of nanometers across.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, National Geographic, 22 Feb. 2019
• The gate ends up being about 10 nanometers.
  — Katherine Bourzac, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Jan. 2017
• If a product page won’t list nanometers, that’s your first signal to keep scrolling.
  — Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 18 June 2026
• If a product page won’t list nanometers, that’s your first signal to keep scrolling.
  — Allison Palmer updated June 24, Miami Herald, 24 June 2026
• Huawei stockpiled a mass of the 5 nanometer chips ahead of the sanctions cut-off.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 Sep. 2024
• Think of a nanometer as a tiny unit that measures the size of transistors on a chip.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 21 Sep. 2023
• Within a few years, that is expected to shrink to less than a nanometer wide.
  — WSJ, 17 July 2021
• The pores can range in size from 50 to 1000 nanometers.
  — Dexter Johnson, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Sep. 2016
• The new study shows how the team cut that scale down to only 160 nanometers.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 21 Nov. 2025
• Many viruses measure just tens of nanometers (nm) in size, but that’s not always the case.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 17 Apr. 2025
• China’s foundries can etch circuits as small as 28 nanometers apart.
  — Joe McDonald, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2023
• If a product page doesn’t list wavelengths in nanometers, that’s your first signal to keep scrolling.
  — Allison Palmer, Kansas City Star, 18 June 2026
• If a product page doesn’t list wavelengths in nanometers, that’s your first signal to keep scrolling.
  — Allison Palmer updated June 24, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2026
• The key difference is in their wavelengths… the nanometers.
  — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 6 Apr. 2026
• 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 nanometer measure is used to indicate the size of transistors on a chip.
  — Bloomberg, Fortune, 25 May 2026
• 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
• 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
• Each nanometer, equal to one billionth of a meter, measures the size of transistors within a chip.
  — Time, 19 Oct. 2021
• While ice looks to the naked eye like water in solid form, a nanometer-thin layer of liquid water can coat its surface.
  — Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 26 Jan. 2026
• Because a nanometer is 10 to the power of -9, or one billionth, of a meter.
  — John Werner, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
• Chip makers mark their tech prowess in this Lilliputian world by the nanometer, a billionth of a meter.
  — Jiyoung Sohn, WSJ, 28 July 2022
• Each letter of the names is only 400 nanometers wide, which is really small.
  — Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 Jan. 2018
• The wafer is then flipped over, and the silicon is removed down to a mere 500 nanometers thickness.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 19 Dec. 2019
• To form more secure bonds, engineers are flattening the last few nanometers of oxide.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2024
• 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
• In the middle of the spectrum resides the color green, at around 555 nanometers.
  — Robert Jimison, CNN, 5 June 2017
• 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
• CNTs are about a nanometer in diameter, and electrons sail through them.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Dec. 2024
• By moving from 7 nanometers to 5, IBM has been able to keep the law intact.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 5 June 2017