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Examples of nanotech in a Sentence
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In the early 2000s, Bill Joy [then chief scientist at Sun Microsystems] wrote articles about how biotech, nanotech, and robotics were going to kill the world.
—Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2014
Nevertheless, several industrial research efforts (notably at Belgian nanotech research firm Imec, France’s CEA-Leti, and Intel) are developing technology that would build the two types of transistors in CMOS logic—NMOS and PMOS—one on top of the other.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 July 2020
By utilizing a blend of AI, biotech and nanotech, these platforms could optimize growth in low-gravity, high-radiation environments, ensuring sustainable food sources for astronauts and future space pioneers.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
That job will be immeasurably more difficult if the media—in particular cable news—ever decide to make nanotech their fear du jour.
—Jason Daley, Discover Magazine, 2 Oct. 2011
Meanwhile, across the country at Caltech, another group of researchers is taking nanotech straight to the genes.
—Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 22 Mar. 2010
From adaptive nanotech to flexible building materials, Hoberman has created surprising and inventive designs at every scale.
—Jess Grey, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2019
Tony brags that the chest device powers new nanotech that allows the suit to generate and regenerate on Tony’s body.
—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 27 Apr. 2018
Not nanotech, not 3-D printing, not artificial intelligence, but gene engineering.
—Tom Shippey, WSJ, 14 Apr. 2017
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Word History
First Known Use
1991, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near nanotech
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“Nanotech.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nanotech. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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nanotech
noun
nano·tech
ˈnan-ō-ˌtek
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