angstrom

See also: angström, ángstrom, ångstrom, ångström, Ångström, angstroem, and ångstrøm

English

Alternative forms

angstrom unit

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish, named after physicist Anders Jonas Ångström.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæŋstɹəm/, /ˈæŋstɹʌm/[1][2]
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæŋstɹəm/, /ˈæŋstɹʌm/, /ˈɔŋstɹəm/[1][2][3]
(General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈæŋstɹʌm/
Hyphenation: ang‧strom

Noun

angstrom (plural angstroms)

(physics) A unit of length equal to $10^{-10}$ meters (that is, one ten-billionth of a meter), approximately the size of an atom, and denoted by the symbol Å, used especially to measure the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation or distances between atoms.

Translations

A very small unit of length, 10^-10 m

Arabic: أَنْغْسْتْرُوم‎ m (ʾanḡstrūm), أَنْجْسْتْرُوم‎ m (ʾangstrūm)
Bulgarian: ангстрьом m (ángstr'om)
Catalan: àngstrom m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 埃格斯特朗 (zh) (āigésītèlǎng), 埃 (zh) (āi)
Danish: ångstrøm c
Dutch: ångström
Esperanto: angstromo
Finnish: ångström (fi)
French: ångström (fr) m, angström (fr) m, aangström m
German: Ångström (de) n, Angström n
Greek: άνγκστρομ n (ángkstrom)

Hebrew: אנגסטרום‎ (he)
Hungarian: ångström (hu)
Irish: angstram m, aonad Angstrom m
Japanese: オングストローム (ja) (ongusutorōmu)
Korean: 옹스트롬 (ongseuteurom)
Malay: angstrom
Portuguese: angstrom (pt) m
Russian: а́нгстрем (ru) m (ángstrɛm)
Slovak: ångström m
Spanish: ángstrom m, angstromio m
Swedish: ångström (sv)

References

angstrom at OneLook Dictionary Search

Wells, John C. (2008) Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, 3rd edition, Longman, →ISBN
Roach, Peter (2011) Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary, 18th edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN
“angstrom” in the Collins English Dictionary, Glasgow: HarperCollins Publishers.

Portuguese

Noun

angstrom m (plural angstroms)

(physics) angstrom (a very small unit of length, 10^-10 m)

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