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A nanomachine is a machine so small that its parts may be made of single molecules. Scientists are trying to make nanomachines for medicine — something that could travel inside the body and do a very small job. This is more of a laboratory word than nanobot. Nanobot sounds like a tiny robot in a film; nanomachine sounds like engineering. You will see it in science news. Though actually, many of these machines are still something people are working towards, not something in every hospital.
奈米機器（台灣說「奈米」；中國大陸說「納米機器」）
組成nano- (from Greek nânos 'dwarf', via Latin nānus) + machine (from Greek mēkhanḗ, via Latin and French).
同家族的字
- machinethe second half is the ordinary word machine
- nanobotthe more story-like word for a tiny working machine
- nanotechnologythe wider science of making things this small
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
nanomachinenoun
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Any mechanical device, manufactured using nanotechnology, having a scale measured in nanometres.
- There are many terrifying possibilities for nanotechnology; military nanomachines could infiltrate human bodies and systematically tear them apart using the same principles medical nanomachines will use to repair them. An uncontrolled nanomachine designed to replicate itself could lead to the "grey goo" scenario that once panicked Prince Charles.
nanomachineverb
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To machine with tolerances measured in nanometres.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。