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ang·strom or ång·strom  (ngstrm)

n. Abbr. A or Å or angst

A unit of length equal to one hundred-millionth (10^-8) of a centimeter, used especially to specify radiation wavelengths. Also called angstrom unit. See Table at measurement.

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[After Anders Jonas Ångström.]

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angstrom

Noun

a unit of length equal to 10^-10 metre, used to measure wavelengths [after Anders J Ångström, Swedish physicist]

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angstrom  (ngstrm)

A unit of length equal to one hundred-millionth (10^-10) of a meter. It was once used to measure wavelengths of light and the diameters of atoms, but has now been mostly replaced by the nanometer.

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angstrom - a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation A, angstrom unit metric linear unit - a linear unit of distance in metric terms micromicron, picometer, picometre - a metric unit of length equal to one trillionth of a meter micromillimeter, micromillimetre, millimicron, nanometer, nanometre, nm - a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter