4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: nano- \nan"o-\ (n[a^]n"[-o]-), pref. 1. A prefix meaning one-billionth; as, a nanogram is one-thousandth of a microgram. [PJC] 2. Very small; submicroscopic; -- used to designate sizes smaller than those that would be referred to as {micro-}; as, nanoscale manipulations. [PJC] From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]: 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}). From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]: nano- pref. [SI: the next quantifier below {micro-}; meaning * 10^(-9)] Smaller than {micro-}, and used in the same rather loose and connotative way. Thus, one has {{nanotechnology}} (coined by hacker K. Eric Drexler) by analogy with `microtechnology'; and a few machine architectures have a `nanocode' level below `microcode'. Tom Duff at Bell Labs has also pointed out that "Pi seconds is a nanocentury". See also {{quantifiers}}, {pico-}, {nanoacre}, {nanobot}, {nanocomputer}, {nanofortnight}. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]: nano- /nan'oh/ 1.A {prefix} meaning 10^-9 or one billionth. Used loosely to mean "small", e.g. {nanotechnology}, or (rarely), following "nanosecond", to mean a short time, e.g. "I'll be with you in a nano". [{Jargon File}] (2002-03-02)
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