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nanopasta

noun

Etymology

From nano- + pasta.

  1. derived from πάσσω
  2. derived from παστά — “barley porridge”
  3. derived from pasta — “dough, pastry cake, paste”
  4. borrowed from pasta
  5. formed as nanopasta — “nano- + pasta”

Definitions

  1. A material resembling spaghetti made of flour nanofibers.

    • The resulting nanopasta is 372 nanometres thick, or about the same size as a measles virus.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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