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What is the Symbol for Nanometer?

Answer – The symbol for nanometer is nm.

The word ‘nanometer’ comes from the Greek words nanos, meaning ‘dwarf,’ and metron, meaning ‘measure.’ Thus, a nanometer is one of the smallest units of length in the metric system. It is equal to one billionth of a meter and is used extensively in nanotechnology to measure atoms/molecules.

Nanometer is represented by the symbol nm. It can be expressed in terms of other commonly used units of length as follows:

1 nm = 109 m (meter)

          = 107 cm (centimeter)

          = 106 mm (millimeter)


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