nanosieve

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noun

A device that functions as a nanoscale sieve

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Meanings

nounnanosieve (plural nanosieves)

plural nanosieves

  1. A device that functions as a nanoscale sieve

    Thanks to such spin-conversion nanosieve helical elements, it is no longer necessary to employ the conventional two-beam interferometric measurement to characterize optical vortices, while the interference can be realized natively without changing any parts of the current setup.

    2016, Shengtao Mei, Muhammad. Qasim. Mehmood, Sajid Hussain, Kun Huang, Xiaohui Ling, Shawn.Yohanes.Siew, Hong Liu, Jinghua Teng, Aaron Danner, Cheng-Wei Qiu, “Flat Helical Nanosieves”, in arXiv

Origin

From nano- + sieve.

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nanosieve. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nanosieve

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