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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
picotech en · NOUN
Meanings
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(abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable) Abbreviation of picotechnology.
This email challenges readers to consider the possibility of a picotech, or even a femtotech. Presumably a picotech would be of the scale of a nucleus (a hydrogen atom is about 0.1 nmeter, a proton is about 0.1 pmeter), and a femtotech would be into quark territory.
1993 December 2, Hugo de Garis, “Picotech? Femtotech?”, in sci.nanotech (Usenet):[This object] is in either an active or pre-active state, like the bots aboard this ship, and scanning reveals quantum computing and picotech processes.
2015, Neil Asher, Dark Intelligence: Transformation, Book One, →ISBN, page 120: