Meanings
- not comparableExtremely thin; of utmost thinness.
When you build your esteem on the media's ultrathin, superslim image, you are going to lose by comparison.
2001, Charles R Gerber, Christ-Centered Self-Esteem1 more example
Planar metamaterials with subwavelength thickness, or metasurfaces, consisting of single-layer or few-layer stacks of planar structures, can be readily fabricated using lithography and nanoprinting methods, and the ultrathin thickness in the wave propagation direction can greatly suppress the undesirable losses.
2016 May 24, Hou-Tong Chen, Antoinette J Taylor, Nanfang Yu, “A review of metasurfaces: physics and applications”, in arXiv, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2022
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Latinūls
- Latinultrā
- Englishultra-
- Proto-West Germanic*þunnī
- Old Englishþynne
- Middle Englishthinne /thenne /thünne
- Englishthin
- Englishultrathin
Translations
Greek υπέρλεπτος
- υπέρλεπτος (ypérleptos)extremely thin
Cite this entry
ultrathin. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ultrathin
“ultrathin.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ultrathin. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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