PICOMETER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does picometer mean? 

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

1. a metric unit of length equal to one trillionth of a meter

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PICOMETER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A metric unit of length equal to one trillionth of a meter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

micromicron; picometer; picometre

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

metric linear unit (a linear unit of distance in metric terms)

Meronyms (parts of "picometer"):

femtometer; femtometre; fermi (a metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter)

Holonyms ("picometer" is a part of...):

A; angstrom; angstrom unit (a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation)

 Context examples 

These new materials will be designed and refined at the picometer scale, which is a thousand times smaller than a nanometer and a million times smaller than a micrometer (which itself is smaller than the width of a human hair).

(Picoscience and a plethora of new materials, National Science Foundation)