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ultrathin en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Latin ūls Proto-Indo-European *-teros? Latin -ter Old Latin -ād Latin -ā Latin ultrābor. English ultra- English thin English ultrathin From ultra- + thin.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Extremely thin; of utmost thinness.
    • Planar metamaterials with subwavelength thickness, or metasurfaces, consisting of single-layer or few-layer stacks of planar structures, can be readily fabricated using lithography and nanoprinting methods, and the ultrathin thickness in the wave propagation direction can greatly suppress the undesirable losses. 2016 May 24, Hou-Tong Chen, Antoinette J Taylor, Nanfang Yu, “A review of metasurfaces: physics and applications”, in arXiv, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2022:
    • When you build your esteem on the media's ultrathin, superslim image, you are going to lose by comparison. 2001, Charles R Gerber, Christ-Centered Self-Esteem:

Deriveds

ultrathinness

Translations (1)

el υπέρλεπτος (extremely thin)