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  Nanometre

  A nanometre (American spelling: nanometer; symbol nm) (Greek: νάνος, nanos, "dwarf"; μέτρον, metrοn, "unit of measurement") is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one billionth of a meter. It is one of the more often used units for very small lengths, and equals ten Ångström, an...
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  Micrometer

  A micrometre or micron (American spelling: micrometer; symbol µm) is one millionth of a metre,or equivalently one thousandth of a millimetre. It can be written in scientific notation as 1×10 m, meaning ⁄1000000 m. Or equivalent to one thousand nanometres (1000 nm). A strand of human hair is about...

• Megametre

  A megametre (American spelling: megameter, symbol Mm) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one million metres, the SI base unit of length, hence to 1,000 km or approximately 621.37 miles. Megametres (from the Greek words megas = big and metro = count/measure) are rarely seen in...

• Decimetre

  A decimetre (American spelling: decimeter, symbol dm) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one tenth of a metre, the current SI base unit of length. In simple words there are 10 cm in a decimetre. It can be written in scientific notations as 100×10 m (engineering notation) or 1 E-1 m ...

• Decametre

  A decametre also dekametre (American spelling: dekameter, earlier decameter symbol dam) is a very rarely used unit of length in the metric system, equal to ten metres, the SI base unit of length. It can be written in scientific notation as 1 E+1 m (exponential notation) — meaning 10 × 1 m. This...

• Kilometer

  The kilometre (American spelling: kilometer), symbol km is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand metres and is therefore exactly equal to the distance travelled by light in free space in ⁄ 299,792.458 of a second. It is the conventionally used measurement unit for expressing...