Meaning & use
Nanomachine
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A machine or mechanical device built at the scale of nanometers, often composed of only a few molecules.
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Researchers are developing nanomachines that could one day deliver medicine directly to individual cancer cells.
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the design and synthesis of molecular nanomachines.
A note on using this word
A nanomachine typically measures between 1 and 100 nanometers, roughly the width of a strand of DNA.
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nanobotmolecular machine
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