Angstrom Definition

aŋstrəm
angstroms
noun
angstroms
A unit of length equal to one hundred-millionth (10−8 ) of a centimeter, used especially to specify radiation wavelengths.
American Heritage
One hundred-millionth of a centimeter: a unit used in measuring the length of light waves.
Webster's New World

(physics) A very small unit of length, 10-10 m, approximately the size of an atom, used especially to measure the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation or distances between atoms. Symbol Å

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Singular:
angstrom
Plural:
angstroms, ngstroms

Origin of Angstrom

  • From the name of the Swedish physicist Anders Jonas Ångström.

    From Wiktionary

  • After Anders Jonas Ångström

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Angstrom Sentence Examples

  • His son, Knut Johan Angstrom, was born at Upsala on the 12th of January 1857, and studied at the university of that town from 1877 to 1884.

  • Perot's number is now definitely adopted to define the Angstrom, and need never be altered, for should at some future time further researches reveal a minute error, it will be only necessary to change slightly the temperature or pressure of the air in which the wave-length is measured.

  • Angstrom's method described below.

  • The values obtained in this way for waves having a period of one second and a wave-length of half an inch agreed very well with those obtained in the same cast-iron by Angstrom's method (see below), with waves having a period of i hour and a length of 30 in.

  • Angstrom's Method consists in observing the propagation of heat waves in a bar, and is probably the most accurate method for 4 4 thehi 's ' 'so ' d 60 measuring the diffusivity of a metal, since the conditions may be widely varied and the correction for external loss of heat can be made comparatively small.

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