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femtomachine

noun

Etymology

From femto- + machine, by analogy with micromachine, nanomachine, and so on.

  1. derived from μᾱχᾰνᾱ́
  2. derived from māchina
  3. borrowed from machine
  4. prefixed as femtomachine — “femto + machine”

Definitions

  1. A (hypothetical or fictional) machine on the femto scale

    A (hypothetical or fictional) machine on the femto scale; that is, a mechanical device whose size is on the order of the femtometer.

    • Femtomachines built from exotic nuclei had been employed as special-purpose computers ever since the basic design had been developed, six thousand years before.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for femtomachine. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA