n. the science and technology of creating nanoparticles and of manufacturing machines which have sizes within the range of nanometres
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n. The manipulation or construction of objects with sizes in the nanometer range or smaller.
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n. the branch of engineering that deals with things smaller than 100 nanometers (especially with the manipulation of individual molecules)
Word Usage
"And the term "nanotechnology" is broad and encompasses many different techniques and ambitions, which, some on the panel argued, make generalisation, for good or bad, unhelpful."