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Word: Angstrom
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 19th century: named after A. J. Ångström (see Ångström, Anders Jonas)
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈaŋstrəm
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a unit of length equal to one hundred-millionth of a centimetre, 10⁻¹⁰ metre, used mainly to express wavelengths and interatomic distances.
Short Definition:unit of length equal to one hundred-millionth of centimetre
Variant Forms:
- ångström
- angstrom unit
- Å
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