NANOTECHNOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nanotechnology mean? 

• NANOTECHNOLOGY (noun)
  The noun NANOTECHNOLOGY has 1 sense:

1. the branch of engineering that deals with things smaller than 100 nanometers (especially with the manipulation of individual molecules)

  Familiarity information: NANOTECHNOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NANOTECHNOLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of engineering that deals with things smaller than 100 nanometers (especially with the manipulation of individual molecules)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("nanotechnology" is a kind of...):

applied science; engineering; engineering science; technology (the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems)

 Context examples 

The Center is developing new technologies for early detection and classification of cancers, combining nanotechnology, systems biology, and molecular imaging.

(Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

The medicine, known as Efavirenz, offered to adults in pill form as part of the cocktail therapy against AIDS, was enhanced through nanotechnology.

(New HIV medicine under development for children in Brazil, Agência Brasil/EBC)

Over the last two decades, nanotechnology has improved many everyday products, from microelectronics to sunscreens.

(Nanoparticles may have bigger impact on the environment than previously thought, National Science Foundation)

Science at the intersection of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive technologies.

(Converging technologies, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

R&D pertaining to the tools needed to advance nanotechnology research and commercialization, including next-generation instrumentation for characterization, measurement, synthesis, and design of materials, structures, devices, and systems.

(Instrumentation Research, Metrology, and Standards for Nanotechnology, NCI Thesaurus)

A team at Houston Methodist Research Institute has been working to overcome the many hurdles to successful cancer treatment by harnessing nanotechnology to deliver drugs directly into cancerous cells.

(Injectable nanoparticles deliver cancer therapy in mice, NIH)