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A unit of length equal to one hundred-millionth of a centimetre (10−8 cm), used mainly to express wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation and…
(With lower-case initial letter.) A name occasionally used by spectroscopists for a unit of frequency equal to 1012 Hz (1012 cycles per second).