nanoproduction

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noun

Production (e.g. manufacturing) at a nanoscale level.

OriginEnglish production ← Middle English produccioun ← Old French production →
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Meanings

nounnanoproduction (countable and uncountable, plural nanoproductions)

plural nanoproductions

  1. countableuncountableProduction (e.g. manufacturing) at a nanoscale level.

    Micromanipulation, sorting and filtering are just examples of tools for the nanoproduction that are under development with MEMS.

    2013, Maurizio Valle, Smart Adaptive Systems on Silicon, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 46
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    Some of the green chemistry approaches in nanoproduction are evaluations of possible environmental and toxicological effects of nanoscale materials before they are included into technologies [...]

    2016, Pim de Voogt, Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Springer, →ISBN, page 91

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekνᾶνος (nânos)
  2. Latinnānus
  3. Englishnano-
  4. Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
  5. Proto-Indo-European*pér
  6. Proto-Indo-European*pró
  7. Proto-Indo-European*pro-
  8. Proto-Italic*pro-
  9. Latinprō-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*dewk-
  11. Proto-Indo-European*déwkti
  12. Proto-Italic*doukō
  13. Latindūcō
  14. Latinprōdūcō
  15. Latinprōductiō
  16. Old Frenchproduction
  17. Middle Englishproduccioun
  18. Englishproduction
  19. Englishnanoproduction

From nano- + production.

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APA

nanoproduction. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nanoproduction

MLA

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Chicago

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