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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>nano-</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../N.html" title="N"/><link rel="previous" href="nano.html" title="nano"/><link rel="next" href="nanoacre.html" title="nanoacre"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">nano-</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nano.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">N</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nanoacre.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="nano-"/><dt xmlns="" id="nano-"><b>nano-</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">pref.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [SI: the next quantifier below <a href="../M/micro-.html"><i class="glossterm">micro-</i></a>;
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meaning <tt class="literal">×
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10<sup>-9</sup></tt>] Smaller than
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<a href="../M/micro-.html"><i class="glossterm">micro-</i></a>, and used in the same rather loose and
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connotative way. Thus, one has <a href="nanotechnology.html"><i class="glossterm">nanotechnology</i></a>
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(coined by hacker K. Eric Drexler) by analogy with <span class="firstterm">microtechnology</span>; and a few machine
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architectures have a <span class="firstterm">nanocode</span> level
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below <span class="firstterm">microcode</span>. Tom Duff at Bell
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Labs has also pointed out that “<span class="quote">Pi seconds is a nanocentury</span>”.
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See also <a href="../Q/quantifiers.html"><i class="glossterm">quantifiers</i></a>, <a href="../P/pico-.html"><i class="glossterm">pico-</i></a>,
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<a href="nanoacre.html"><i class="glossterm">nanoacre</i></a>, <a href="nanobot.html"><i class="glossterm">nanobot</i></a>,
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<a href="nanocomputer.html"><i class="glossterm">nanocomputer</i></a>,
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