--- title: N — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics description: The 369 words of the English dictionary under N, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/N/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / N # N — The English dictionary The words of the English dictionary under N: 369 words, every meaning and example parsed by Mova; the ↗ after a sentence leads to the word's page, with every sentence's syntax tree and pragmatics. 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[2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/N/page/2/) [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/N/page/3/) [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/N/page/4/) … [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/N/page/20/) **na** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (Scotland, Northern England) «Na» means «no» or «not»: «I'm na going».[↗](na/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (slang, informal) «Na» or «nah» is a casual way to say «no»: «Na, I'm fine».[↗](na/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (science) Na is the chemical symbol for sodium, a soft silvery metal found in salt; it comes from its Latin name, natrium.[↗](na/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* As a fragment, «na» is the end of words like «gonna» (going to) and «wanna» (want to).[↗](na/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* (Mandarin, pinyin) «nà» means «that», and «ná» means «to take»; these are not English words.[↗](na/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 6:* In a pronunciation guide, na shows how to say one syllable of a longer word.[↗](na/#m6 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* «Want a biscuit?»[↗](na/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") «Na, I'm full, thanks.»[↗](na/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Nah, I don't think it'll rain.[↗](na/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · «I'm na feart,» said the Scottish lad, meaning «I'm not afraid».[↗](na/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Na is the symbol for sodium on the periodic table.[↗](na/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Table salt is NaCl: one sodium (Na) and one chlorine (Cl).[↗](na/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · I'm gon-na be late\![↗](na/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · In Mandarin, «nà ge» means «that one».[↗](na/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Write N/A in the box if the question does not apply to you.[↗](na/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Naiads (na'-yads), or Naiades (na-i'-a-deez), 166, 227.[↗](na/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **naan** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Naan is a soft, flat bread, often shaped like a teardrop, baked in a hot oven, eaten with curry in Indian, Pakistani and other South Asian food.[↗](naan/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* I dipped my naan in the curry.[↗](naan/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We ordered two garlic naans.[↗](naan/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Naan is baked inside a hot clay oven called a tandoor.[↗](naan/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad made pizza on naan bread.[↗](naan/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The naan was warm and buttery.[↗](naan/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Would you like rice or naan with your meal?[↗](naan/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **nag** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To keep asking or telling someone to do something in an annoying way.[↗](nag/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To keep worrying or hurting you a little: a nagging doubt, a nagging pain.[↗](nag/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (noun, informal) A person who nags.[↗](nag/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (noun, informal) An old or weak horse.[↗](nag/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Mum keeps nagging me to tidy my room.[↗](nag/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Stop nagging\![↗](nag/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") I'll do it in a minute.[↗](nag/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · I had a nagging feeling I'd forgotten something.[↗](nag/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · He had a nagging cough for weeks.[↗](nag/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · My sister nagged Dad until he bought ice cream.[↗](nag/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The farmer's old nag could barely pull the cart.[↗](nag/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't be such a nag.[↗](nag/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · A nagging thought kept me awake.[↗](nag/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **nagging** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Nagging is telling someone again and again to do something, in an annoying way.[↗](nagging/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A nagging pain or feeling goes on and on and will not go away.[↗](nagging/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A nagging doubt or worry is a small worry that keeps coming back.[↗](nagging/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Mum keeps nagging me to tidy my room.[↗](nagging/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Stop nagging\![↗](nagging/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") I'll do it later.[↗](nagging/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · I had a nagging headache all day.[↗](nagging/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · A nagging cough should be checked by a doctor.[↗](nagging/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · I had a nagging feeling I'd forgotten something.[↗](nagging/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · His nagging made everyone cross.[↗](nagging/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **nahuatl** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Nahuatl is the language of the Aztecs, still spoken today by over a million people in Mexico.[↗](nahuatl/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The Aztecs spoke Nahuatl.[↗](nahuatl/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · «Chocolate» comes from a Nahuatl word.[↗](nahuatl/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · About 1.5 million people in Mexico speak Nahuatl.[↗](nahuatl/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · «Tomatl» is the Nahuatl word for tomato.[↗](nahuatl/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Nahuatl was written in pictures before the Spanish came.[↗](nahuatl/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Some Mexican place names come from Nahuatl.[↗](nahuatl/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **nail** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A nail is a thin, pointed piece of metal you hit with a hammer to join pieces of wood.[↗](nail/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Your fingernails and toenails are nails too: the hard parts at the ends of your fingers and toes.[↗](nail/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To nail is to fix something with nails.[↗](nail/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* To nail something (informal) is to do it perfectly: «She nailed the test.».[↗](nail/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A box has 100 nails.[↗](nail/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · He uses 4 nails for each board.[↗](nail/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She painted her 10 nails.[↗](nail/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · How many nails are left after he used 35?[↗](nail/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad nailed the sign to the fence.[↗](nail/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Cut your nails and wash your hands.[↗](nail/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · You hit the nail on the head with that answer.[↗](nail/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · He nailed his dance at the show.[↗](nail/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · then thou shalt bring her home to thy house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; (Torah DEU.21.12, JPS 1917)[↗](nail/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold.[↗](nail/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings 2CH.3.9, JPS 1917)[↗](nail/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · They deck it with silver and with gold, they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.[↗](nail/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JER.10.4, JPS 1917)[↗](nail/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the couplings; and brass in abundance without weight; (Writings 1CH.22.3, JPS 1917)[↗](nail/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") **naira** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The money of Nigeria; one naira is divided into 100 kobo.[↗](naira/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") Its sign is ₦.[↗](naira/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The book cost five hundred naira at the market in Lagos.[↗](naira/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · One naira is made of a hundred kobo.[↗](naira/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The sign for naira is ₦.[↗](naira/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Ada saved her naira notes in a tin.[↗](naira/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The news said the naira had lost value against the dollar.[↗](naira/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · If one mango costs 200 naira, how much do three cost?[↗](naira/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") Six hundred naira.[↗](naira/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **naked** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Without any clothes on.[↗](naked/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Without the usual cover: a naked flame, a naked light bulb, naked branches.[↗](naked/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Not hidden; plain and obvious: naked greed.[↗](naked/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* the naked eye: your eyes alone, without a telescope or microscope.[↗](naked/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* You can see some planets with the naked eye.[↗](naked/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · No naked flames near the camping gas\![↗](naked/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The baby ran around naked after his bath.[↗](naked/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · In winter the trees are naked.[↗](naked/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Germs are too small to see with the naked eye.[↗](naked/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The emperor walked through the town naked in the story.[↗](naked/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The naked bulb gave a harsh light.[↗](naked/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · She told him the naked truth.[↗](naked/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · What harm can a naked frog do us?[↗](naked/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And He said: 'Who told thee that thou wast naked?[↗](naked/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.3.11, JPS 1917)[↗](naked/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.[↗](naked/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.2.25, JPS 1917)[↗](naked/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And he said: 'I heard Thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.'[↗](naked/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.3.10, JPS 1917)[↗](naked/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · The nether-world is naked before Him, and Destruction hath no covering.[↗](naked/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.26.6, JPS 1917)[↗](naked/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.[↗](naked/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.24.7, JPS 1917)[↗](naked/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · So that they go about naked without clothing, and being hungry they carry the sheaves; (Writings JOB.24.10, JPS 1917)[↗](naked/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") **nakedness** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* The state of being without clothes; in the Torah, a word for private parts and for forbidden closeness.[↗](nakedness/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.[↗](nakedness/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah LEV.18.8, JPS 1917)[↗](nakedness/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.[↗](nakedness/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah LEV.18.16, JPS 1917)[↗](nakedness/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: she is thy father's near kinswoman.[↗](nakedness/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah LEV.18.12, JPS 1917)[↗](nakedness/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · In thee have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in thee have they humbled her that was unclean in her impurity.[↗](nakedness/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets EZK.22.10, JPS 1917)[↗](nakedness/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen; I will take vengeance, and will let no man intercede.[↗](nakedness/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.47.3, JPS 1917)[↗](nakedness/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · So she uncovered her harlotries, and uncovered her nakedness; then My soul was alienated from her, like as My soul was alienated from her sister.[↗](nakedness/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets EZK.23.18, JPS 1917)[↗](nakedness/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **name** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A name is the word we call a person, pet, place or thing.[↗](name/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To name something is to give it a name.[↗](name/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To name something is also to say what it is: «Name three colours.».[↗](name/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A name can mean what people think of you: «a good name».[↗](name/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Her name is Lily.[↗](name/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Name the shape with 5 sides.[↗](name/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · There are 24 names on the list.[↗](name/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · He wrote his name 3 times.[↗](name/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We named our puppy Biscuit.[↗](name/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Can you name the planets in order?[↗](name/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The town is named after a river.[↗](name/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · It is unkind to call people names.[↗](name/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · And she called his name Issachar.[↗](name/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.30.18, JPS 1917)[↗](name/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And he called the name of it Sitnah.[↗](name/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.26.21, JPS 1917)[↗](name/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Therefore the name of it was called Marah.[↗](name/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.15.23, JPS 1917)[↗](name/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · Shall the enemy blaspheme Thy name for ever?[↗](name/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.74.10, JPS 1917)[↗](name/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · And the name of the city was called Hormah.[↗](name/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JDG.1.17, JPS 1917)[↗](name/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · And ye say: 'Wherein have we despised Thy name?'[↗](name/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets MAL.1.6, JPS 1917)[↗](name/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") **nameless** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Nameless means having no name or whose name is not known.[↗](nameless/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Nameless means whose name is kept secret on purpose.[↗](nameless/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A nameless feeling (fear, dread) is too strange or strong to describe.[↗](nameless/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A nameless stranger knocked at the door.[↗](nameless/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The stray cat was nameless until we called it Biscuit.[↗](nameless/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Someone, who shall remain nameless, ate all the biscuits\![↗](nameless/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · She felt a nameless fear in the dark wood.[↗](nameless/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The tomb holds a nameless soldier.[↗](nameless/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The river was nameless on the old map.[↗](nameless/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Suddenly--he could not have told why--a nameless fear seized upon him, and he fled away from the shore as if for his life.[↗](nameless/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **namely** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Namely is used to say exactly who or what you mean, often to give a list or a name.[↗](namely/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Two pupils were missing, namely Sam and Lily.[↗](namely/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Only one planet has rings we can easily see, namely Saturn.[↗](namely/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We need three things, namely flour, eggs and milk.[↗](namely/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The factors of 6, namely 1, 2, 3 and 6, add up to 12.[↗](namely/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · There's one problem, namely that we have no ball.[↗](namely/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Two seasons are hot here, namely spring and summer.[↗](namely/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · She won the top prize, namely a new bike.[↗](namely/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · He has one weakness, namely chocolate.[↗](namely/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · After all, it was of very little consequence; for Kaela's mamma had the best of all possessions; namely, Kaela herself.[↗](namely/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.[↗](namely/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.13.11, JPS 1917)[↗](namely/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · 30) Namely, with the two other elements.[↗](namely/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](namely/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · 14) I adopted here the reading of Judah Halevi, namely: (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](namely/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · neither showed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shown unto Israel.[↗](namely/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JDG.8.35, JPS 1917)[↗](namely/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt; (Writings ECC.5.12, JPS 1917)[↗](namely/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely, upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.[↗](namely/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings EST.8.12, JPS 1917)[↗](namely/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") **namesake** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A person or thing that has the same name as another.[↗](namesake/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A person or thing named after someone: «The ship was named after the queen, its namesake.».[↗](namesake/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* I met my namesake — another girl called Ruby Brown\![↗](namesake/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The town of Washington is named after George Washington, its namesake.[↗](namesake/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · My grandad is my namesake; we are both called Thomas.[↗](namesake/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The new ship is a namesake of an old one sunk in the war.[↗](namesake/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Prince Charles's namesake, King Charles I, lived in the 1600s.[↗](namesake/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The bakery's namesake was the founder's grandmother.[↗](namesake/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · After the feasting was over the two namesakes, along with other men, went to the cliff and brought all the treasure home to the Palace.[↗](namesake/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **nan** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (informal, UK, Australia, NZ, Ireland) Grandmother; a child's name for their grandma.[↗](nan/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* naan or nan bread: a soft flat bread from South Asia (often spelt "naan").[↗](nan/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (computers) NaN means "not a number", an error value.[↗](nan/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* In Irish place names such as Tir-nan-Og, nan means "of the".[↗](nan/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* I'm staying at my nan's this weekend.[↗](nan/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · My nan makes the best apple pie.[↗](nan/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Nan, can you read me a story?[↗](nan/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · We had curry with nan bread.[↗](nan/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Her nan is ninety and still walks every day.[↗](nan/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Nan and Grandad came to watch my school play.[↗](nan/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · One of the most pathetic, beautiful, and typical scenes in Irish legend is the return of Ossian from Tir-nan-Og, and his interview with St. Patrick.[↗](nan/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **nanna** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (informal, Australia, NZ, UK, Ireland) Grandmother; a child's name for their gran.[↗](nanna/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (informal, joking) An old-fashioned or fussy person: such a nanna.[↗](nanna/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (Australia, informal) nanna nap: a short sleep during the day.[↗](nanna/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We're staying at Nanna's for the weekend.[↗](nanna/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Nanna made pikelets for afternoon tea.[↗](nanna/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · My nanna knits me a jumper every winter.[↗](nanna/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad had a nanna nap on the couch.[↗](nanna/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Stop being such a nanna and come to the party\![↗](nanna/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Nanna and Pop live by the beach.[↗](nanna/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · I called Nanna to say happy birthday.[↗](nanna/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **nanny** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A nanny is a person whose job is to look after a family's children in the family's home.[↗](nanny/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (UK, informal) Nanny is a child's word for grandmother, like nan or nana.[↗](nanny/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A nanny goat is a female goat (a male is a billy goat).[↗](nanny/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (informal, critical) A «nanny state» is a government that people think makes too many rules about how they should live.[↗](nanny/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Our nanny picks us up from school.[↗](nanny/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Mary Poppins is the most famous nanny in stories.[↗](nanny/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · (UK, informal) I'm going to Nanny's house for tea.[↗](nanny/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The nanny goat fed her two kids.[↗](nanny/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The nanny read us a story before bed.[↗](nanny/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · (informal) Some people complain about a «nanny state» when new rules are made.[↗](nanny/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **nanometre** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A unit of length: one billionth of a metre (0.000000001 m).[↗](nanometre/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") Symbol: nm.[↗](nanometre/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A nanometre is a billion times smaller than a metre.[↗](nanometre/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A human hair is about 80,000 nanometres wide.[↗](nanometre/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Visible light has wavelengths of about 400 to 700 nanometres.[↗](nanometre/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Some viruses are about 100 nanometres across.[↗](nanometre/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Computer chips have tiny parts measured in nanometres.[↗](nanometre/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Your fingernails grow about one nanometre every second.[↗](nanometre/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · We use nm as the symbol for nanometre.[↗](nanometre/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **1** 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