angstrom

angstrom

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

English

Alternative forms

• Angstrom
• angström
• ångstrom
• ångström
• angstrom unit, AU

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish ångström, named after Swedish 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)

1. (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.

Derived terms

• angstrom star

Translations

a very small unit of length, 10⁻¹⁰ m

Arabic: أَنْغْسْتْرُوم‎ m (ʾanḡstrūm), أَنْجْسْتْرُوم‎ m (ʾangstrūm) Bulgarian: а́нгстрьом m (ángstrjom) 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) Khmer: អង់ស្ត្រុម (ʼɑngstrom) Korean: 옹스트롬 (ongseuteurom) Malay: angstrom Polish: angstrem (pl) m Portuguese: angstrom (pt) m Russian: а́нгстрем (ru) m (ángstrɛm) Slovak: ångström m Spanish: ángstrom m Swedish: ångström (sv)

References

• angstrom at OneLook Dictionary Search

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

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Portuguese

Noun

angstrom m (plural angstroms)

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