I need a little (haha) help.
I’m working on a piece about nanotechnology, and I’m collecting uses of the “nano” prefix. Here’s my initial list:
- nanoelectronics
- nanophotonics
- nanomaterials
- nano-bio-micro
- nanomechanics
- nanopants
Got any other examples?
My granddaughter calls her other grandfather “Nano.”
😉
Is he extremely small?
Here’s more, some more obvious than others:
nanomachine
nanobot
nanobes
nanoscale
nanotubes
nanometer/second/slice or anything else you’d like to measure in billionths
(for amusement only):
iPod nano (mp3 player)
Nano-ITX (motherboard)
nano -w (*nix text editor w/ word wrap enabled)
nanosaur (pc game)
NanoStick (water treatment)
Nanopets…
Nano-nano. (Alien greeting)
nanoparticle
National Novel Writing Month – http://www.nanowrimo.org/
Molecular engineered textiles. http://www.nano-tex.com/
US NSF – National Nanotechnology Initiative …
(go to the “Full text search”, and complete the box with your keywords; Examples of keywords are nano*) …
http://www.nsf.gov/nano
nano: /nan´oh/, n. [CMU: from nanosecond] A brief period of time. “Be with you in a nano” means you really will be free shortly, i.e., implies what mainstream people mean by “in a jiffy” (whereas the hackish use of ‘jiffy’ is quite different — see jiffy).